Integrating mechanism-based modeling with biomedical imaging to build practical digital twins for clinical oncology

C Wu, G Lorenzo, DA Hormuth, EABF Lima… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Digital twins employ mathematical and computational models to virtually represent a
physical object (eg, planes and human organs), predict the behavior of the object, and …

Patient-specific, mechanistic models of tumor growth incorporating artificial intelligence and big data

G Lorenzo, SR Ahmed, DA Hormuth II… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Despite the remarkable advances in cancer diagnosis, treatment, and management over the
past decade, malignant tumors remain a major public health problem. Further progress in …

Opportunities for improving brain cancer treatment outcomes through imaging-based mathematical modeling of the delivery of radiotherapy and immunotherapy

DA Hormuth II, M Farhat, C Christenson, B Curl… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has become a fourth pillar in the treatment of brain tumors and, when
combined with radiation therapy, may improve patient outcomes and reduce the …

Biologically-based mathematical modeling of tumor vasculature and angiogenesis via time-resolved imaging data

DA Hormuth, CM Phillips, C Wu, EABF Lima… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The recruitment of new vasculature via angiogenesis is a critical
component of tumor development, which fundamentally influences tumor growth and …

Bayesian calibration of a stochastic, multiscale agent-based model for predicting in vitro tumor growth

EABF Lima, D Faghihi, R Philley, J Yang… - PLoS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Hybrid multiscale agent-based models (ABMs) are unique in their ability to simulate
individual cell interactions and microenvironmental dynamics. Unfortunately, the high …

Optimizing combination therapy in a murine model of HER2+ breast cancer

EABF Lima, RAF Wyde, AG Sorace… - Computer methods in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 positive (HER2+) breast cancer is frequently
treated with drugs that target the HER2 receptor, such as trastuzumab, in combination with …

[HTML][HTML] Informing virtual clinical trials of hepatocellular carcinoma with spatial multi-omics analysis of a human neoadjuvant immunotherapy clinical trial

S Zhang, A Deshpande, BK Verma, H Wang, H Mi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human clinical trials are important tools to advance novel systemic therapies improve
treatment outcomes for cancer patients. The few durable treatment options have led to a …

Mathematical analysis of a model-constrained inverse problem for the reconstruction of early states of prostate cancer growth

E Beretta, C Cavaterra, M Fornoni, G Lorenzo… - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2024 - SIAM
The availability of cancer measurements over time enables the personalized assessment of
tumor growth and therapeutic response dynamics. However, many tumors are treated after …

[HTML][HTML] A data assimilation framework to predict the response of glioma cells to radiation

J Liu, DA Hormuth, J Yang… - … and engineering: MBE, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We incorporate a practical data assimilation methodology into our previously established
experimental-computational framework to predict the heterogeneous response of glioma …

A Multi-Compartment Model of Glioma Response to Fractionated Radiation Therapy Parameterized via Time-Resolved Microscopy Data

J Liu, DA Hormuth, J Yang, TE Yankeelov - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Conventional radiobiology models, including the linear-quadratic model, do not
explicitly account for the temporal effects of radiation, thereby making it difficult to make time …