Model-based Decision Support: Requirements and Future for its Application in Surgery

Making decisions in surgical planning and treatment becomes challenging given the increasing number and complexity of information entities to be considered (e.g. omics data, radiological images). Decision support systems are required that support in understanding and interpreting the data and allow for reproducible decisions of high quality. In this paper, we provide a vision of model-based surgical decision support systems. Such systems base upon a digital patient model that integrates all information entities relevant for an organ or disease. We will further collect requirements to be considered when developing digital patient models and model-based surgical decision support systems.