{"id":14637,"date":"2024-03-21T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1404944"},"modified":"2024-03-21T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:55:26","slug":"ai-generated-digital-twins-of-patients-can-predict-future-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=14637","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated digital twins of patients can predict future diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw-blurple?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2024%2F03%2FUntitled-design-1-2.jpg&amp;signature=413d4e6b861cb7e4dfa882f225c39aae\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI<\/a> tool that creates digital twins of patients can predict our future health, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Named Foresight, the tool uses g<span>enerative pre-trained transformers, the same family of large language models (LLMs) used by <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/chatgpt-generated-new-app-sector-for-european-devs-generative-ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the UK first trained the models on medical records. Next, they fed their tool fresh healthcare data to create <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/digital-twins-could-save-your-life-heres-how\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">virtual duplicates of&nbsp;patients<\/a><span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Finally, the digital twins forecast various outcomes, from disease development to medication needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Scientists are particularly excited about the prospect of accelerating diagnosis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When applied to US <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a>, the digital twins correctly identified the next condition of patients next condition with 88% accuracy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was less effective, however, on British data. Using information from two National Health Trust (NHS) organisations, the tool accurately predicted subsequent conditions&nbsp;68% and 76% of the time.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nonetheless, the researchers believe the digital twins can guide diagnoses, treatment, and clinical research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Study co-author James Teo, director of data science and AI at King\u2019s College Hospital, believes the forecasts represent \u201c<span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">possible multiverses\u201d to understanding diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur generative AI produces forecasts from text in health record across any disorder, test, medication, treatment or complication across all disease groups into the future,\u201d he said on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis patient digital twin can provide insights and \u201cwhat if\u201d scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the tech is unleashed in the wild, further tweaks and tests are essential. But the researchers are making progress on those fronts.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re already working on <span>\u201ca more accurate\u201d<\/span> tool: Foresight 2. You can read the study findings on their original in <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/landig\/article\/PIIS2589-7500(24)00025-6\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lancet Digital Health<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/ai-patient-digital-twins-predicts-future-diseases\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI tool that creates digital twins of patients can predict our future health, according to a new study. Named Foresight, the tool uses generative pre-trained transformers, the same family of large&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}