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In this paper we present a method for estimating unknown parameters that appear on an avascular, spheric tumour growth model. The model for the tumour is based on nutrient driven growth of a continuum of live cells, whose birth and death…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. A. Knopoff , D. R. Fernández , G. A. Torres , C. V. Turner

We present a multi-species partial differential equation (PDE) model for tumor growth and a an algorithm for calibrating the model from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The model is designed for glioblastoma (GBM) brain tumors. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Ali Ghafouri , George Biros

We present a novel formulation for the calibration of a biophysical tumor growth model from a single-time snapshot, MRI scan of a glioblastoma patient. Tumor growth models are typically nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-30 Klaudius Scheufele , Shashank Subramanian , Andreas Mang , George Biros , Miriam Mehl

We study an optimal control problem for a stochastic model of tumour growth with drug application. This model consists of three stochastic hyperbolic equations describing the evolution of tumour cells. It also includes two stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Sakine Esmaili , M. R. Eslahchi , Delfim F. M. Torres

Our objective is the calibration of mathematical tumor growth models from a single multiparametric scan. The target problem is the analysis of preoperative Glioblastoma (GBM) scans. To this end, we present a fully automatic tumor-growth…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Klaudius Scheufele , Shashank Subramanian , George Biros

Recent research has used deep learning to develop partial differential equation (PDE) models in science and engineering. The functional form of the PDE is determined by a neural network, and the neural network parameters are calibrated to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Justin Sirignano , Jonathan MacArt , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

In this paper we present a method for estimating unknown parameter that appear on a non-linear reaction-diffusion model of cancer invasion. This model considers that tumor-induced alteration of micro-enviromental pH provides a mechanism for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Andrés Quiroga , Damián Fernández , Germán Torres , Cristina Turner

We present a 3D fully-automatic method for the calibration of partial differential equation (PDE) models of glioblastoma (GBM) growth with mass effect, the deformation of brain tissue due to the tumor. We quantify the mass effect, tumor…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-18 Shashank Subramanian , Klaudius Scheufele , Naveen Himthani , George Biros

In this paper we present a method for estimating unknown parameter that appear in a two dimensional nonlinear reaction-diffusion model of cancer invasion. This model considers that tumor-induced alteration of microenvironmental pH provides…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-21 A. A. I. Quiroga , D. R. Fernandez , G. A. Torres , C. V. Turner

Modeling tumor growth accurately is essential for understanding cancer progression and informing treatment strategies. To estimate the parameters in the tumor growth model described by a nonlinear PDE, we adopt Physics-Informed Neural…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Liu Liu , Yifei Wang , Qinyu Xu , Xiaoqian Xu

The use of mathematical models to make predictions about tumor growth and response to treatment has become increasingly more prevalent in the clinical setting. The level of complexity within these models ranges broadly, and the calibration…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-28 Allison L. Lewis , Kathleen M. Storey , Heyrim Cho , Anna C. Zittle

Many inverse and parameter estimation problems can be written as PDE-constrained optimization problems. The goal, then, is to infer the parameters, typically coefficients of the PDE, from partial measurements of the solutions of the PDE for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix J. Herrmann

Glioblastoma, a highly aggressive brain tumor, poses major challenges due to its poor prognosis and high morbidity rates. Partial differential equation-based models offer promising potential to enhance therapeutic outcomes by simulating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Zeineb Haouari , Jonas Weidner , Yeray Martin-Ruisanchez , Ivan Ezhov , Aswathi Varma , Daniel Rueckert , Bjoern Menze , Benedikt Wiestler

We consider a one--spatial dimensional tumour growth model [2, 3, 4] that consists of three dependent variables of space and time: volume fraction of tumour cells, velocity of tumour cells, and nutrient concentration. The model variables…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Gopikrishnan Chirappurathu Remesan

In the present article the diffusion equation is used to model the spatio-temporal dynamics of a tumor, taking into account the heterogeneous of the medium. This approach makes it possible to take into account the complex geometric shape of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Maxim V. Polyakov , Valeria V. Ten

Shape optimization models with one or more shapes are considered in this chapter. Of particular interest for applications are problems in which where a so-called shape functional is constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

We investigate the evolution of tumor growth relying on a nonlinear model of partial differential equations which incorporates mechanical laws for tissue compression combined with rules for nutrients availability and drug application.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Konstantina Trivisa , Franziska Weber

We study a distributed optimal control problem for a nonisothermal Caginalp-type phase-field model that describes tumour growth under thermal therapy. The PDE system couples a possibly viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation, governing the evolution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Giulia Cavalleri , Pierluigi Colli , Elisabetta Rocca

We present a numerical scheme for solving a parameter estimation problem for a model of low-grade glioma growth. Our goal is to estimate the spatial distribution of tumor concentration, as well as the magnitude of anisotropic tumor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Amir Gholami , Andreas Mang , George Biros

In this paper, we characterize a degenerate PDE as the gradient flow in the space of nonnegative measures endowed with an optimal transport-growth metric. The PDE of concern, of Hele-Shaw type, was introduced by Perthame et. al. as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Lénaïc Chizat , Simone Di Marino
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