Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients

Built on the foundation of the randomized controlled trial (RCT), Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is at its best when optimizing outcomes for homogeneous cohorts of patients like those participating in an RCT. Its weakness is a failure to resolve a clinical quandary: patients appear for care individua...

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Autores principales: Jef Van den Eynde, Cedric Manlhiot, Alexander Van De Bruaene, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Alejandro F. Frangi, Werner Budts, Shelby Kutty
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4a91857ed8d5485e89f290738d055af52021-12-02T08:39:24ZMedicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients2297-055X10.3389/fcvm.2021.798215https://doaj.org/article/4a91857ed8d5485e89f290738d055af52021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.798215/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2297-055XBuilt on the foundation of the randomized controlled trial (RCT), Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is at its best when optimizing outcomes for homogeneous cohorts of patients like those participating in an RCT. Its weakness is a failure to resolve a clinical quandary: patients appear for care individually, each may differ in important ways from an RCT cohort, and the physician will wonder each time if following EBM will provide best guidance for this unique patient. In an effort to overcome this weakness, and promote higher quality care through a more personalized approach, a new framework has been proposed: Medicine-Based Evidence (MBE). In this approach, big data and deep learning techniques are embraced to interrogate treatment responses among patients in real-world clinical practice. Such statistical models are then integrated with mechanistic disease models to construct a “digital twin,” which serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a patient. MBE is thereby capable of dynamically modeling the effects of various treatment decisions in the context of an individual's specific characteristics. In this article, we discuss how MBE could benefit patients with congenital heart disease, a field where RCTs are difficult to conduct and often fail to provide definitive solutions because of a small number of subjects, their clinical complexity, and heterogeneity. We will also highlight the challenges that must be addressed before MBE can be embraced in clinical practice and its full potential can be realized.Jef Van den EyndeJef Van den EyndeCedric ManlhiotAlexander Van De BruaeneGerhard-Paul DillerAlejandro F. FrangiAlejandro F. FrangiAlejandro F. FrangiWerner BudtsShelby KuttyFrontiers Media S.A.articleartificial intelligencecongenital heart diseasedeep learningevidence-based medicinepersonalized medicinerandomized controlled trialDiseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) systemRC666-701ENFrontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Vol 8 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
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topic artificial intelligence
congenital heart disease
deep learning
evidence-based medicine
personalized medicine
randomized controlled trial
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
RC666-701
spellingShingle artificial intelligence
congenital heart disease
deep learning
evidence-based medicine
personalized medicine
randomized controlled trial
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
RC666-701
Jef Van den Eynde
Jef Van den Eynde
Cedric Manlhiot
Alexander Van De Bruaene
Gerhard-Paul Diller
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi
Werner Budts
Shelby Kutty
Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients
description Built on the foundation of the randomized controlled trial (RCT), Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is at its best when optimizing outcomes for homogeneous cohorts of patients like those participating in an RCT. Its weakness is a failure to resolve a clinical quandary: patients appear for care individually, each may differ in important ways from an RCT cohort, and the physician will wonder each time if following EBM will provide best guidance for this unique patient. In an effort to overcome this weakness, and promote higher quality care through a more personalized approach, a new framework has been proposed: Medicine-Based Evidence (MBE). In this approach, big data and deep learning techniques are embraced to interrogate treatment responses among patients in real-world clinical practice. Such statistical models are then integrated with mechanistic disease models to construct a “digital twin,” which serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a patient. MBE is thereby capable of dynamically modeling the effects of various treatment decisions in the context of an individual's specific characteristics. In this article, we discuss how MBE could benefit patients with congenital heart disease, a field where RCTs are difficult to conduct and often fail to provide definitive solutions because of a small number of subjects, their clinical complexity, and heterogeneity. We will also highlight the challenges that must be addressed before MBE can be embraced in clinical practice and its full potential can be realized.
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author Jef Van den Eynde
Jef Van den Eynde
Cedric Manlhiot
Alexander Van De Bruaene
Gerhard-Paul Diller
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi
Werner Budts
Shelby Kutty
author_facet Jef Van den Eynde
Jef Van den Eynde
Cedric Manlhiot
Alexander Van De Bruaene
Gerhard-Paul Diller
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi
Alejandro F. Frangi
Werner Budts
Shelby Kutty
author_sort Jef Van den Eynde
title Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients
title_short Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients
title_full Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients
title_fullStr Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients
title_full_unstemmed Medicine-Based Evidence in Congenital Heart Disease: How Artificial Intelligence Can Guide Treatment Decisions for Individual Patients
title_sort medicine-based evidence in congenital heart disease: how artificial intelligence can guide treatment decisions for individual patients
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/4a91857ed8d5485e89f290738d055af5
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