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Nataraj1  \nVillanova Center for Intelligent Learning Systems, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085  \ne-mail: [nataraj@villanova.edu](nataraj@villanova.edu)  \nSadra Hemmati  \nDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085  \ne-mail: [shemmati@villanova.edu](shemmati@villanova.edu)  \nHarnessing Nonlinear Mechanics to Transform Medical Diagnostics  \nMedical diagnostics continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare, with diagnostic errors constituting the most common, costly, and harmful category of medical errors. They contribute to millions of adverse outcomes globally each year. The principal difficulty lies in the extraordinary complexity of the human body, a multiscale, adaptive, nonlinear dynamical system whose hidden states defy simplificationsand contradict intuitive thinking. Current practice, largely dependent on heuristic guidelines, physician judgment, and black box machine learning, remains fundamentally limited, perpetuating diagnostic failures and preventing true personalization. This paper argues that nonlinear mechanics and dynamics are not just refinements but essential to understanding physiology. Nonlinear phenomena such as instabilities, bifurcations, chaos, fractals, adaptive feedback, and multiscale interactions occur across all the systems in the body including cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, neural, immune, and musculoskeletal subsystems, and are central to both health and disease. Ignoring these phenomena costs us mechanistic understanding and puts accurate diagnostics out of reach. At the same time, mechanistic models, data-driven Artificial Intelligence, and physician expertise each have unique strengths but are inadequate when applied in isolation. We propose their synthesis through physicsinformed machine learning, hybridframeworks, and the emerging paradigm of digital twins. Such systems combine mechanistic insights, data-driven computations, and experiential clinical wisdom to deliver interpretable and personalized diagnostics. Importantly, embedding nonlinear mechanics in real-time, patient-specific, hybrid models provides an exciting path toward reducing errors, improving outcomes, and transitioning from reactive, guideline-driven practice to truly pro-active, precision medicine.  \n[DOI: 10. 1115/1 .4070319]  \nKeywords: nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear mechanics, precision medicine, medical diagnostics, review  \n1 Introduction and Background  \nMathematical modeling has always been the backbone of engineering disciplines, firmly grounded in physics, chemistry, and allied sciences. The extraordinary advances of engineering in the twentieth century, ranging from aerospace and robotics to computing and biomedical devices, demonstrate the power of modeling as a driver of innovation and impactful societal transformation. Over the past five decades, nonlinear solid mechanics, dynamics, and fluid mechanics (hereafter “nonlinear mechanics”) have taken center stage in analysis, design, diagnostics, and control. Nonlinear methods not only improve quantitative accuracy but also explain behaviors that cannot even be qualitatively captured by linearized theories, such as instabilities, bifurcations, limit cycles, chaos, and multiperiodic responses. Despite these successes, nonlinear approaches are still not as widely adopted in engineering practice as they could be, and efforts continue to encourage their broader integration.  \nIn medicine, by contrast, the role of mathematical modeling has historically been far more limited. Although medicine is enriched by scientific knowledge and empirical findings, the systematic application of modeling, in particular, nonlinear modeling, has not  \n1Corresponding author.  \nManuscript received September 23, 2025; final manuscript received November 3, 2025; published online December 4, 2025. Assoc. Editor: Yonggang Huang.  \nhad a transformative effect comparable to engineering. This is unfortunate, as accurate ","cbCaivPZddRRspOx","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivPZddRRspOx","pdf",3052024,"English","# Introduction and Background\n## Role of mathematical modeling in engineering and medicine\n## Nonlinear mechanics and its clinical relevance\n## Complexity as the primary obstacle in biomedical modeling","[{\"question\":\"Why are diagnostic errors so common in medical care?\",\"answer\":\"Diagnostic errors are driven by the human body’s multiscale, adaptive nonlinear complexity, which makes hidden states difficult to simplify or interpret. 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