Control of Medical Digital Twins with Artificial Neural Networks

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Auteurs principaux: Böttcher, Lucas, Fonseca, Luis L., Laubenbacher, Reinhard C.
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author Böttcher, Lucas
Fonseca, Luis L.
Laubenbacher, Reinhard C.
author_facet Böttcher, Lucas
Fonseca, Luis L.
Laubenbacher, Reinhard C.
contents The objective of personalized medicine is to tailor interventions to an individual patient's unique characteristics. A key technology for this purpose involves medical digital twins, computational models of human biology that can be personalized and dynamically updated to incorporate patient-specific data collected over time. Certain aspects of human biology, such as the immune system, are not easily captured with physics-based models, such as differential equations. Instead, they are often multi-scale, stochastic, and hybrid. This poses a challenge to existing model-based control and optimization approaches that cannot be readily applied to such models. Recent advances in automatic differentiation and neural-network control methods hold promise in addressing complex control problems. However, the application of these approaches to biomedical systems is still in its early stages. This work introduces dynamics-informed neural-network controllers as an alternative approach to control of medical digital twins. As a first use case for this method, the focus is on agent-based models, a versatile and increasingly common modeling platform in biomedicine. The effectiveness of the proposed neural-network control method is illustrated and benchmarked against other methods with two widely-used agent-based model types. The relevance of the method introduced here extends beyond medical digital twins to other complex dynamical systems.
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spellingShingle Control of Medical Digital Twins with Artificial Neural Networks
Böttcher, Lucas
Fonseca, Luis L.
Laubenbacher, Reinhard C.
Quantitative Methods
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Dynamical Systems
Optimization and Control
The objective of personalized medicine is to tailor interventions to an individual patient's unique characteristics. A key technology for this purpose involves medical digital twins, computational models of human biology that can be personalized and dynamically updated to incorporate patient-specific data collected over time. Certain aspects of human biology, such as the immune system, are not easily captured with physics-based models, such as differential equations. Instead, they are often multi-scale, stochastic, and hybrid. This poses a challenge to existing model-based control and optimization approaches that cannot be readily applied to such models. Recent advances in automatic differentiation and neural-network control methods hold promise in addressing complex control problems. However, the application of these approaches to biomedical systems is still in its early stages. This work introduces dynamics-informed neural-network controllers as an alternative approach to control of medical digital twins. As a first use case for this method, the focus is on agent-based models, a versatile and increasingly common modeling platform in biomedicine. The effectiveness of the proposed neural-network control method is illustrated and benchmarked against other methods with two widely-used agent-based model types. The relevance of the method introduced here extends beyond medical digital twins to other complex dynamical systems.
title Control of Medical Digital Twins with Artificial Neural Networks
topic Quantitative Methods
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Dynamical Systems
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13851