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The book serves as an essential resource that examines the transformative potential of the metaverse and digital twin technology, highlighting their role in revolutionizing patient care. Metaverse-Based Digital Twins: Specialized Healthcare Applications is a comprehensive guide providing knowledge of the metaverse and digital twin concepts and their potential applications in several healthcare domains. The metaverse is an emerging technology that could facilitate the exploration of innovative approaches to patient care and foster their advancement. The novel metaverse-driven digital twin is a cutting-edge instrument for enhancing medical treatment. The Metaverse facilitates sophisticated and improved medical procedures through patient appointments and examinations using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies, avatar-based treatment of patients, and use in surgical clinics. This volume will provide an innovative and pioneering exploration of the most recent advancements in metaverse-based digital technology and its implications across multiple domains within the healthcare industry for students pursuing medicine and engineering and established professionals looking to innovate in these fields. Readers will find this book: Explores recent progress in healthcare administration using Metaverse-based digital twin technology that enables new discoveries in the healthcare industry; Introduces innovative technology that can effectively tackle the diverse challenges faced in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; Offers a thorough account of current advancements in technology and their ethical and equitable application in the healthcare industry. Audience Computer scientists, engineers, research scholars, medical practitioners, students, and healthcare managers working with computer interfaces to improve patient care.
Preface -- 1 Digital Twins in the Metaverse: An Overview and Their Applications in Healthcare -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Introduction to Metaverse -- 1.3 Metaverse-Based Technologies -- 1.4 Immersive Technology -- 1.5 Digital Twin -- 1.6 Various Other Potential Metaverse Health Applications -- 1.7 Conclusion -- 2 Metaverse-Based Digital Twin and Investigating Its Applications in Dentistry -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Various Models of Metaverse -- 2.3 Benefits of Metaverse in Dental Healthcare -- 2.4 Digital Human -- 2.5 Blockchain Uses in Dentistry and Health Care -- 2.6 Metaverse in Dentistry and Healthcare -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Role of Metaverse in Cardiology and in Cardiac Catheterization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Metaverse Definition -- 3.3 The Rise of the Metaverse Application in Healthcare -- 3.4 The Promise of the Metaverse in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Health -- 3.5 Application of Metaverse in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory -- 3.6 Components of the Future Catheterization Laboratory -- 3.7 Incorporating Metaverse with Cardiology and Developing the Cardioverse -- 3.8 Challenges to Face and the NFTs Integration -- 3.9 Conclusion -- 4 Cancer and the Metaverse: An Introduction to Digital Twins -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 How Metaverses and Digital Twins Affect Healthcare -- 4.3 Introduction to Metaverse -- 4.4 Digital Twins -- 4.5 Other Applications of DT in Cancer -- 4.6 Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Metaverse -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5 Digital Twins in the Metaverse and Their Application to Personalized Medicine -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Role of DT in Medicine -- 5.3 Various Technologies of Metaverse -- 5.4 Digital Twin (DT) Framework -- 5.5 Applications -- 5.6 Integrating Variables from Many Types, Places, and Times into Digital Twins -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6 Metaverse-Based Digital Twins in Ophthalmology -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Metaverse in Ophthalmology -- 6.3 Metaverse-Based Different Technologies in Ophthalmology -- 6.4 Application of Metaverse in Ophthalmology -- 6.5 Additional Metaverse Applications in Optometry -- 6.6 Use of Digital Twins -- 6.7 DT Based Application of Metaverse in Ophthalmology -- 6.8 Telemedicine for Patient Consultation -- 6.9 Conclusion -- 7 The Potential of Metaverse-Based Digital Twin in Surgery -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Metaverse: An Introduction -- 7.3 AI in Surgical Metaverse -- 7.4 Present Understanding of XR, AR, and VR Platforms -- 7.5 Potential for Advancement in Surgical Healthcare -- 7.6 Medical Devices for Patient-to-Image Registration Hardware -- 7.7 AR/VR Surgical Metaverse: Practical Applications -- 7.8 Patient Digital Twin -- 7.9 Digital Twins (DT) to Guide End-Effectors -- 7.10 Metaverse, XR, and CAD/CAM in Surgical Process -- 7.11 Conclusion -- 8 Potential of Interactive VR and Digital Twin for Drug Development and Clinical Trials -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Introduction to CADD and VR Drug/Molecule Design -- 8.3 Applications of VR Relevant to Drug Discovery -- 8.4 Interactive Molecular Dynamics in Virtual Reality (IMD-VR) -- 8.5 Generative AI and Digital Twins -- 8.6 Digital Twins in Preclinical Drug Discovery -- 8.7 Digital Twins in Clinical Trials -- 8.8 Digital Twins and In Silico Research -- 8.9 The TopDown Digital Twin -- 8.10 Conclusion -- 9 The Integration of Metaverse in Psychiatry and Mental Health -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Metaverse -- 9.3 The Relationship Between the Metaverse and Psychiatry -- 9.4 Metaverse in Mental Health and Psychiatric Disorders -- 9.5 Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in the Metaverse -- 9.6 Conclusion -- 10 Integration of Metaverse-Based Wearables for Creating Digital Healthcare -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Metaverse Framework and Building Block Technologies -- 10.3 Metaverse Wearables Coupled with XR Technology -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11 Potential of Metaverse for Creating Intelligent Healthcare -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Metaverse -- 11.3 Application in Healthcare -- 11.4 Additional Applications of Metaverse in Healthcare -- 11.5 Metaverses in Healthcare for Medical Domains -- 11.6 Conclusion -- 12 Integration of Digital Metaverse in Educating Medical Students for Better Understanding -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Function of Metaverses in Education -- 12.3 Impact of the Metaverse on Healthcare Infrastructures -- 12.4 Employing Metaverse to Improve Medical Education -- 12.5 Implications for Healthcare Education -- 12.6 Additional Applications in Research -- 12.7 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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