Dear Colleagues,

Digital twins are digital replications of whole or partial aspects of physical entities. The purpose of these twins is to connect with the physical entities through sensors and data transfer mechanisms to simulate the physical entities’ activities. Using information about the present and past states of these entities, their future progression can be forecasted. These forecasts can then be used to support decision-making at present in order to drive the physical entities to desired or optimal future states. This approach has been the classical underlying principle of model-based control engineering for several decades. The rapid advancements in sensor technologies have widened the applications of digital twins in healthcare, transforming sectors such as genomics, aged care, cancer care, dementia, and more. This Special Issue is a forum that invites the latest developments in such digital twin applications for healthcare. This Special Issue will cover healthcare-related topics including, but not limited to:

• Implementation of digital twins in healthcare, evidence and lessons learnt.
• Sensor technologies and their implementation in digital twins for healthcare.
• Role of sensors in digital twins for smart hospitals and remote care.
• Digital twins in care delivery (e.g., robotic surgery, robotic drug deliver, prosthetics, and control).
• Sensor applications for precision and personalization of care using digital twins.
• Disease progression modeling using sensor data in digital twins.

Since digital twins in healthcare is an emerging area, completed research works with evidence, as well as work in progress papers with adequate evidence, will be considered. In addition, well-rationalized concepts and vision papers about the future will also be considered. However, systematic literature reviews and/or scoping reviews are only likely to be acceptable if of a very high standard.

Prof. Dr. Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Dr. Nalika Ulapane
Guest Editors

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• digital twins
• sensors and applications
• IoT
• smart hospital
• care delivery
• remote care
• robotic surgery
• robotic drug delivery
• prosthetics
• precision healthcare
• personalization of care