Simulating cancer growth with multiscale agent-based modeling

Z Wang, JD Butner, R Kerketta, V Cristini… - Seminars in cancer …, 2015 - Elsevier
There have been many techniques developed in recent years to in silico model a variety of
cancer behaviors. Agent-based modeling is a specific discrete-based hybrid modeling …

Simulating tissue mechanics with agent-based models: concepts, perspectives and some novel results

P Van Liedekerke, MM Palm, N Jagiella… - Computational particle …, 2015 - Springer
In this paper we present an overview of agent-based models that are used to simulate
mechanical and physiological phenomena in cells and tissues, and we discuss underlying …

Impact of metabolic heterogeneity on tumor growth, invasion, and treatment outcomes

M Robertson-Tessi, RJ Gillies, RA Gatenby… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Histopathologic knowledge that extensive heterogeneity exists between and within tumors
has been confirmed and deepened recently by molecular studies. However, the impact of …

Systems oncology: towards patient-specific treatment regimes informed by multiscale mathematical modelling

GG Powathil, M Swat, MAJ Chaplain - Seminars in cancer biology, 2015 - Elsevier
The multiscale complexity of cancer as a disease necessitates a corresponding multiscale
modelling approach to produce truly predictive mathematical models capable of improving …

Integrated PK-PD and agent-based modeling in oncology

Z Wang, JD Butner, V Cristini, TS Deisboeck - Journal of pharmacokinetics …, 2015 - Springer
Mathematical modeling has become a valuable tool that strives to complement conventional
biomedical research modalities in order to predict experimental outcome, generate new …

Simulation frameworks for morphogenetic problems

S Tanaka - Computation, 2015 - mdpi.com
Morphogenetic modelling and simulation help to understand the processes by which the
form and shapes of organs (organogenesis) and organisms (embryogenesis) emerge. This …

Model-Based Tumor Growth Dynamics and Therapy Response in a Mouse Model of De Novo Carcinogenesis

C Loizides, D Iacovides, MM Hadjiandreou, G Rizki… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Tumorigenesis is a complex, multistep process that depends on numerous alterations within
the cell and contribution from the surrounding stroma. The ability to model macroscopic …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic assessment of osteosarcoma chemoresistance based on virtual clinical trials

KA Rejniak, MC Lloyd, DR Reed, MM Bui - Medical hypotheses, 2015 - Elsevier
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone tumor in pediatric and young adult
patients. Successful treatment of osteosarcomas requires a combination of surgical …

Agent-based modeling of porous scaffold degradation and vascularization: Optimal scaffold design based on architecture and degradation dynamics

H Mehdizadeh, ES Bayrak, C Lu, SI Somo, B Akar… - Acta biomaterialia, 2015 - Elsevier
A multi-layer agent-based model (ABM) of biomaterial scaffold vascularization is extended to
consider the effects of scaffold degradation kinetics on blood vessel formation. A …

A mechanistic collective cell model for epithelial colony growth and contact inhibition

S Aland, H Hatzikirou, J Lowengrub, A Voigt - Biophysical journal, 2015 - cell.com
We present a mechanistic hybrid continuum-discrete model to simulate the dynamics of
epithelial cell colonies. Collective cell dynamics are modeled using continuum equations …