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We propose a multiscale chemo-mechanical model of cancer tumour development in an epithelial tissue. The model is based on transformation of normal cells into the cancerous state triggered by a local failure of spatial synchronisation of…

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Cancer is a disease driven by random DNA mutations and the interaction of many complex phenomena. To improve the understanding and ultimately find more effective treatments, researchers leverage computer simulations mimicking the tumor…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Tobias Duswald , Ernesto A. B. F. Lima , J. Tinsley Oden , Barbara Wohlmuth

Timely diagnosis of breast cancer is an important task. This type of breast cancer is one of the most common diseases. The method of microwave radiothermometry is a promising direction for solving this problem. The method is based on…

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In this work, we investigate a fractional-order tumor growth model aimed at capturing memory effects and nonlocal temporal dynamics inherent to tumor evolution. The model is formulated using Caputo fractional derivatives and incorporates…

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Cancer is a very complex phenomenon that involves many different scales and situations. In this paper we consider a free boundary problem describing the evolution of a tumor colony and we derive a new asymptotic model for tumor growth. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Martina Magliocca

Predictive modeling of the evolutionary dynamics of cancer is a challenge issue in computational cancer biology. In this paper, we propose a general mathematical model framework for the evolutionary dynamics of cancer with plasticity and…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-10 Jinzhi Lei

Computational models provide crucial insights into complex biological processes such as cancer evolution, but their mechanistic nature often makes them nonlinear and parameter-rich, complicating calibration. We systematically evaluate…

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In many virus families, tens to thousands of proteins assemble spontaneously into a capsid (protein shell) while packaging the genomic nucleic acid. This review summarizes recent advances in computational modeling of these dynamical…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-07 Michael F. Hagan , Roya Zandi

In this study, we model avascular tumour growth in epithelial tissue. This can help us to get a macroscopic view of the interaction between the tumour with its surrounding microenvironment and the physical changes within the tumour…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-15 Sounak Sadhukhan , S. K. Basu

In this work we investigate a mathematical model describing tumour growth under a treatment by chemotherapy that incorporates time-delay related to the conversion from resting to hunting cells. We study the model using values for the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-09 F. S. Borges , K. C. Iarosz , H. P. Ren , A. M. Batista , M. S. Baptista , R. L. Viana , S. R. Lopes , C. Grebogi

The inversion of linear systems is a fundamental step in many inverse problems. Computational challenges exist when trying to invert large linear systems, where limited computing resources mean that only part of the system can be kept in…

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The processes taking place inside the living cell are now understood to the point where predictive computational models can be used to gain detailed understanding of important biological phenomena. A key challenge is to extrapolate this…

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Our understanding of the physics of biological molecules, such as proteins and DNA, is limited because the approximations we usually apply to model inert materials are not in general applicable to soft, chemically inhomogeneous systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Sarah Harris , Vivien M. Kendon

Mechanical models for tumor growth have been used extensively in recent years for the analysis of medical observations and for the prediction of cancer evolution based on imaging analysis. This work deals with the numerical approximation of…

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AI for cancer detection encounters the bottleneck of data scarcity, annotation difficulty, and low prevalence of early tumors. Tumor synthesis seeks to create artificial tumors in medical images, which can greatly diversify the data and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Yuxiang Lai , Xiaoxi Chen , Angtian Wang , Alan Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

This paper presents a model for tumor growth using nonlocal velocity. We establish some results on the existence and uniqueness of the solution for a nonlocal tumor growth model. Many experiences show that tumor spheroid can be invariant by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Bouhamidi Abderrahman , El Harraki Imad , Melouani Yassine

Heterogeneity in the cell population of cancer tissues poses many challenges in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Studying the heterogeneity in cell populations from gene expression measurement data in the context of cancer research is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Anik Chaudhuri , Anwoy Mohanty , Manoranjan Satpathy

Powered by advanced information technology, more and more complex systems are exhibiting characteristics of the Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). Understanding the mechanism of CPSS is essential to our ability to control their actions,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xiao Xue , Xiang-Ning Yu , De-Yu Zhou , Xiao Wang , Zhang-Bin Zhou , Fei-Yue Wang

The ever increasing demands placed upon machine performance have resulted in the need for more comprehensive particle accelerator modeling. Computer simulations are key to the success of particle accelerators. Many aspects of particle…