SynthesisNeurosurgical review2024
Assessing the benefits of digital twins in neurosurgery: a systematic review.
Synthesis in Neurosurgical review, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Digital Twins and Health Care: an Umbrella Review.Journal of medical systems · 2025Pooled it
- Digital twin-enabled robotic surgery: a bibliometric and knowledge-mapping analysis from patient-specific simulation to autonomy and clinical translation.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Review
- Narrative Review of Digital Twins in the Health Domain: Development, Application, and Evidence Consolidation.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Virtual reality-augmented differentiable simulations for digital twin applications in surgical planning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Review
- Digital twin assisted surgery, concept, opportunities, and challenges.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Review
- Medical Digital Twin: A Review on Technical Principles and Clinical Applications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- The translational power of Alzheimer's-based organoid models in personalized medicine: an integrated biological and digital approach embodying patient clinical history.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025Review
- High-fidelity 3D models of human cadavers and their organs with the use of handheld scanner-Alternative method in medical education and clinical practice.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Digital neurosurgery in the era of intelligent medicine: a scoping review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Enhancing Ophthalmic Care: The Transformative Potential of Digital Twins in Healthcare.Cureus · 2024Review
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Digital twins are virtual replicas of their physical counterparts, and can assist in delivering personalized surgical care. This PRISMA guideline-based systematic review evaluates current literature addressing the effectiveness and role of digital twins in many stages of neurosurgical management. The aim of this review is to provide a high-quality analysis of relevant, randomized controlled trials and observational studies addressing the neurosurgical applicability of a variety of digital twin technologies. Using pre-specified criteria, we evaluated 25 randomized controlled trials and observational studies on the applications of digital twins, including navigation, robotics, and image-guided neurosurgeries. All 25 studies compared these technologies against usual surgical approaches. Risk of bias analyses using the Cochrane risk of bias tool for randomized trials (Rob 2) found "low" risk of bias in the majority of studies (23/25). Overall, this systematic review shows that digital twin applications have the potential to be more effective than conventional neurosurgical approaches when applied to brain and spinal surgery. Moreover, the application of these novel technologies may also lead to fewer post-operative complications.
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