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The innovations in the field of health which were presented by French companies caused a sensation at the Las Vegas technology fair. CES visitors had the opportunity to “meet” their bodily digital twin, allowing them to observe live the (proper) functioning of their brain or that of their heart.
The creation of “virtual twins” capable of replicate in the form of avatars of whole human bodies and transparently display their internal organs, undoubtedly announces a new digital revolution in the health sector.
Taking advantage of the physical return of the general public to CES 2022 which was held this week in Las Vegas, the French company Dassault Systèmes offered unprecedented augmented reality experiences. Visitors might thus observe live and in 3D imagery their working heart, or their own brain.
These digital duplicates are increasingly used in hospital settings to visualize, test, understand and predict how a treatment is working on patients or to prepare for delicate surgery, Claire Biot, Vice-President Health at Dassault Systèmes:
« Digital twins are going to be used more and more in the medical field throughout an individual’s life. They make it possible, for example, to establish prevention recommendations in order to fight once morest an evolving pathology. And in the event of a glitch, your virtual double can be used as part of a treatment course in a hospital environment. They are then used to make predictions to determine the best possible surgical intervention and to follow a patient throughout his recovery phase.
Modeling a human body and its various organs is an extremely complex operation that requires multiple skills. The digital twin of your heart, for example, requires the expertise of many specialists such as cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and healthcare professionals responsible for developing medical devices. The goal is to make sure that the scanned model of your organ matches the original.
However, with the technique now mature, digital twins have become a valuable aid for medical research and accelerate innovation for pharmaceutical industries and medical device manufacturers. These virtual doubles are useful for health authorities to authorize the marketing of a health product and of course, digital twins assist doctors and hospital managers to establish an optimal and personalized patient care path. »
This technique of digital doubles is not only intended for healthcare professionals. The entire industrial sector already uses these systems to simulate places, such as offices or factories in 3D with the possibility of interacting remotely in this virtually reconstituted environment. This virtualisation 3D allows you to reproduce for testing purposes, all the details of an object, an architecture and even an entire city, with a degree of precision pushed to the nearest millimeter.
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