SIG-Cardiac presents: Digital Twins in Healthcare
Monday 23rd June 2025
Digital Twins in Healthcare: Synergies of Physics and Data-driven Models for Cardiology
Speaker: Dr. Julia Camps, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Friday, June 27, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT / 11:00 AM BST / 6:00 PM CST
Zoom: Meeting ID: 262 909 6153, Password: 863757
This webinar, organized by the MICCAI Special Interest Group on Cardiac Imaging, Computational Modeling and Clinical Sciences (SIG-Cardiac), introduces the concept of digital twins in healthcare, with a focus on their application in cardiology. By combining physics-based simulations with machine learning techniques, cardiac digital twins enable personalised modelling of heart function and disease.
We will discuss how these models can support precision medicine—improving diagnosis, guiding therapy, and enabling virtual clinical trials. The session will conclude with a hands-on demonstration of a cardiac digital twinning framework, showcasing how clinical data can be integrated into personalised computational models. Attendees will gain insight into the interdisciplinary design principles behind these systems and how they can be leveraged to advance patient-specific care in cardiovascular medicine.
Dr. Julia Camps is a La Caixa Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), where he investigates how digital twins can improve the prediction of arrhythmic risk in heart attack survivors. He holds a BSc in Computer Science (2014) and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (2017) from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 2021, He completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Blanca Rodriguez, where he developed statistical methods for generating cardiac digital twins from multimodal clinical data using physics-based models. From 2021 to 2025, Dr. Camps continued at Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher, leading the development of a scalable and efficient digital twinning pipeline aimed at enabling virtual clinical trials. He is currently a member of the Physense group at UPF, led by Prof. Oscar Camara, and collaborates closely with cardiologists at Centro Médico Teknon to address clinical questions through personalised cardiac modelling.
About the SIG-Cardiac
The Special Interest Group (SIG) on Cardiac Imaging, Computational Modeling and Clinical Sciences (SIG-Cardiac) intends to bring together cardiologists, radiologists, computer scientists, and engineers to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
The mission of SIG-Cardiac is to become a dynamic and innovative forum within the MICCAI Society, dedicated to advancing cardiac care through the clinical application of research technologies. By bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and clinical practice, SIG-Cardiac ensures that technological advancements directly contribute to improved patient outcomes and more efficient clinical workflows. The vision is to create a future where cardiac care consistently benefits from the seamless integration of research innovations, ultimately enhancing the well-being of patients, supporting clinicians, and positively impacting the broader healthcare system.
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