A Physiology-Informed Digital Twin Framework for Simulating Liver Health Progression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14969v1
• Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:40:04 GMT
• Title: A Physiology-Informed Digital Twin Framework for Simulating Liver Health Progression
• Abstract summary: We present a physiology-informed digital twin of the human liver designed for longitudinal simulation of liver function and early-stage disease progression.<n>The model, referred to as HEPATWIN, integrates key hepatic processes, including carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism, bilirubin, bile production, and detoxification.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present a physiology-informed digital twin of the human liver designed for longitudinal simulation of liver function and early-stage disease progression. The model, referred to as HEPATWIN, integrates key hepatic processes, including carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism, bilirubin conjugation, bile production, and detoxification, within a unified systems-level framework to generate clinically observable biomarker trajectories. Unlike purely data-driven approaches, HEPATWIN incorporates mechanistic representations of liver physiology and patient-specific inputs such as diet, activity, and baseline biomarkers to simulate disease evolution over time. To ensure consistency with clinical progression patterns, we introduce a stage-transition-driven calibration mechanism that aligns simulated outputs with population-level biomarker distributions across disease stages, including NAFLD, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. Validation using the NIDDK NAFLD dataset demonstrates that HEPATWIN produces longitudinal biomarker estimates within clinically acceptable ranges and can forecast trajectories over multi-year horizons. Furthermore, simulated biomarkers retain sufficient clinical signal to support downstream NASH detection with competitive performance relative to models using ground-truth laboratory data. These results highlight the potential of physiology-informed digital twins for personalized, non-invasive diagnosis and prediction of organ health in general and liver health monitoring in particular.

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