A digital twin heart for treating arrhythmia

In 2020, 1.7 million people died worldwide due to cardiovascular disease. To revolutionize treatment of this condition, Maxime Sermesant from Inria, the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology of France, joined forces with University Hospital of Bordeaux researchers to develop imaging for heart procedures, says Inria in a press release. They laucnhed inHEART, a start-up that focuses on digital tools for heart procedures specifically.
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Digital Twin
The project seeks to create a “digital twin heart” that could revolutionize cardiovascular treatments. This digital heart will be an exact replica of a patient’s real heart which will allow medical experts to study the patient’s individual anatomy in three dimensions and test different treatment scenarios before carrying out any invasive interventions. This will provide doctors with a detailed picture of how different treatments may affect their patient’s health.
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Combining techniques
By combining AI with data collected from clinical sites across Europe, inEurHeart seeks to revolutionize treatments for cardiovascular diseases through personalised virtual models using CT & MRI images. This could drastically reduce time spent by medical experts trying to identify target areas during catheter ablation procedures while also increasing accuracy and patient safety.

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