Application of digital pathology‐based advanced analytics of tumour microenvironment organisation to predict prognosis and therapeutic response

X Fu, E Sahai, A Wilkins - The Journal of Pathology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the application of advanced analytics, especially artificial intelligence (AI), to
digital H&E images, and other histological image types, has begun to radically change how …

Fractal dimension of chromatin: potential molecular diagnostic applications for cancer prognosis

K Metze - Expert review of molecular diagnostics, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Fractal characteristics of chromatin, revealed by light or electron microscopy, have been
reported during the last 20 years. Fractal features can easily be estimated in digitalized …

Modeling tumor growth using fractal calculus: Insights into tumor dynamics

AK Golmankhaneh, S Tunç, AM Schlichtinger… - Biosystems, 2024 - Elsevier
Important concepts like fractal calculus and fractal analysis, the sum of squared residuals,
and Aikaike's information criterion must be thoroughly understood in order to correctly fit …

Shape matters: morphological metrics of glioblastoma imaging abnormalities as biomarkers of prognosis

L Curtin, P Whitmire, H White, KM Bond, MM Mrugala… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Lacunarity, a quantitative morphological measure of how shapes fill space, and fractal
dimension, a morphological measure of the complexity of pixel arrangement, have shown …

The global relationship between chromatin physical topology, fractal structure, and gene expression

LM Almassalha, A Tiwari, PT Ruhoff, Y Stypula-Cyrus… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Most of what we know about gene transcription comes from the view of cells as molecular
machines: focusing on the role of molecular modifications to the proteins carrying out …

On the fractal geometry of DNA by the binary image analysis

C Cattani, G Pierro - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2013 - Springer
The multifractal analysis of binary images of DNA is studied in order to define a
methodological approach to the classification of DNA sequences. This method is based on …

The fractal dimension of chromatin-a potential molecular marker for carcinogenesis, tumor progression and prognosis

K Metze, R Adam, JB Florindo - Expert review of molecular …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Fractality is omnipresent in medicine and life sciences. In particular, the fractal
principle is found simultaneously at different organization levels of the cell nucleus. The aim …

Nanoscale changes in chromatin organization represent the initial steps of tumorigenesis: a transmission electron microscopy study

L Cherkezyan, Y Stypula-Cyrus, H Subramanian… - BMC cancer, 2014 - Springer
Background Nuclear alterations are a well-known manifestation of cancer. However, little is
known about the early, microscopically-undetectable stages of malignant transformation …

Label-free imaging of the native, living cellular nanoarchitecture using partial-wave spectroscopic microscopy

LM Almassalha, GM Bauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The organization of chromatin is a regulator of molecular processes including transcription,
replication, and DNA repair. The structures within chromatin that regulate these processes …

Disordered chromatin packing regulates phenotypic plasticity

RKA Virk, W Wu, LM Almassalha, GM Bauer, Y Li… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Three-dimensional supranucleosomal chromatin packing plays a profound role in
modulating gene expression by regulating transcription reactions through mechanisms such …