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Towards GEMINI: A Generation of Multi-scale Digital Twins of Ischaemic and Haemorrhagic Stroke Patients

Project description

Digital twins for stroke healthcare

An acute stroke refers to the sudden onset of an abnormal function in the body caused by a disruption in blood supply to the brain. This interruption can occur either due to a blockage in the blood vessels (ischemic stroke) or bleeding within the brain (hemorrhagic stroke) and requires immediate intervention to minimise brain damage. The EU-funded GEMINI project aims to develop validated multi-organ and multi-scale digital twin computational models that simulate the physiological processes and characteristics of acute stroke and potential treatments. These models will leverage information on cerebral blood flow, brain perfusion, metabolism, and thrombosis along the heart-brain axis. GEMINI plans to demonstrate the added benefits of these models in personalised management and treatment of acute stroke in a multi-centre clinical trial.

Objective

GEMINI aims to deliver validated multi-organ and multi-scale computational models for treatment decision support and improved fundamental understanding of acute strokes, both ischaemic and haemorrhagic. We will demonstrate the added benefit of these computational models in personalised disease management. Specifically, GEMINI will deliver validated, integrated multi-scale, multi-organ Digital Twin in Healthcare (DTH) models for cerebral blood and cerebrospinal fluid flow, brain perfusion and metabolism, and blood flow and thrombosis along the heart-brain axis by integrating available and newly developed dynamic, interoperable, and modular computational models. Building on these models, GEMINI will deliver validated population-based DTHs of ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke aetiology and onset, treatment, and disease progression. Utilising these population-based DTHs, GEMINI will validate five personalised subject-specific DTHs, (1) stroke treatment, and (2) disease progression DTHs for acute ischaemic stroke and (3) aneurysm treatment, (4) subarachnoid haemorrhage progression, and (5) unruptured intracranial aneurysm risk assessment DTHs for haemorrhagic stroke to guide patient care and long-term management. We will bring proof of value of digital twins by the evaluation of the ischaemic stroke treatment selection DTH in a multi-centre clinical trial, in which treatment and patient outcomes are compared in situations with and without the availability of a DTH. GEMINI will implement a project-wide structured approach for data harmonisation, curation, model validation, verification, and model certification of the DTHs. Several outcomes of GEMINI have a high value for clinical practice, medical device industry, and in enhancing research in the fields of (bio)medical and computer sciences, warranting an extensive valorisation strategy with adequate IP protection and versatile exploitation actions to enhance a wide adaptation of the results of GEMINI.

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Coordinator

STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC
Net EU contribution

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€ 2 734 134,71
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€ 2 962 670,00

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