Chilean researchers having created a digital twin of the human heart can assist with pacemaker placement. Photo by ulleo/Pixabay
Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Researchers have succeeded in creating a digital twin that for the first time replicates the heart's electrical conduction system, which coordinates heartbeats, a new study says.
The breakthrough could pave the way for diagnosing and tailoring treatments for conditions such as arrhythmias and heart failure.
The study, published in the journal Medical Image Analysis, was conducted by a team at the Millennium Institute for Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for Health, or iHEALTH, which is linked to Chilean universities and specializes in medical imaging, engineering, artificial intelligence and medicine.
Researchers there developed a computer model that digitally reconstructs the Purkinje network -- the heart's electrical conduction system -- using a standard electrocardiogram.
