Project aims for digital twin of cardiovascular system

If successful, the project will give patients real-time support to monitor their health alongside care from their doctor.

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ECHOES (Enhancing Cardiac Care Through Extensive Sensing) will bring together international academic and industrial partners to develop wearable technology that can be used to capture the experiences, symptoms and cardiovascular data of an individual during their daily life.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques will analyse the data alongside genetic and healthcare data, creating a digital twin of a patient’s heart. ECHOES is one of the four shortlisted international research projects competing for a £30m funding award from the British Heart Foundation’s Big Beat Challenge.

In a statement, Prof Sir Nilesh Samani, Medical Director at the British Heart Foundation, said: “This is high-risk, high-reward research. We whole-heartedly believe in the transformational potential of the Big Beat Challenge to save and improve lives, both here in the UK and around the world. It represents the single biggest investment in pioneering science in the BHF’s 60-year history. In an ideal world, we’d like to fund all four as each one has the chance to make a monumental impact.”