Vittorio Cristini is Professor of Health Information Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas, and of Systems Biology at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. He is also Honorary Professor of Mathematics at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Professor Cristini is a leading researcher in the fields of mathematical and computational biology, complex fluids, materials science and mathematical oncology. He has published several chapters in books and over 60 journal articles.
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Part I. Theory: 1. Introduction 2. Biological background 3. Continuum tumor modeling: single phase 4. Analysis and calibration of single-phase continuum tumor models 5. Continuum tumor modeling: multiphase 6. Discrete cell modeling 7. Hybrid continuum-discrete models 8. Numerical schemes Part II. Applications: 9. Continuum tumor modeling: a multidisciplinary approach 10. Agent-based cell modeling: application to breast cancer.
