William E. Schiesser

Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cancer Immunotherapy

Partial Differential Equation Analysis in R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of this book is a detailed discussion of a dual cancer vaccine (CV)-immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) mathematical model formulated as a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) defining the spatiotemporal distribution of cells and biochemicals during tumor growth.

A computer implementation of the model is discussed in detail for the quantitative evaluation of CV-ICI therapy. The coding (programming) consists of a series of routines in R, a quality, open-source scientific computing system that is readily available from the internet. The routines are based on the method of lines (MOL), a general PDE algorithm that can be executed on modest computers within the basic R system. The reader can download and use the routines to confirm the model solutions reported in the book, then experiment with the model by varying the parameters and modifying/extending the equations, and even studying alternative models with the PDE methodology demonstrated by the CV-ICImodel.

Spatiotemporal Modeling of Cancer Immunotherapy: Partial Differential Equation Analysis in R facilitates the use of the model, and more generally, computer- based analysis of cancer immunotherapy mathematical models, as a step toward the development and quantitative evaluation of the immunotherapy approach to the treatment of cancer.

To download the R routines, please visit: http://www.lehigh.edu/~wes1/ci_download

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-17635-8
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9783030176358
• ISBN-10: 3030176355
• Artikelnr.: 55418957

Autorenporträt

William E. Schiesser is Emeritus McCann Professor of Computational Biomedical Engineering, Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. 

Inhaltsangabe

Fixed Boundary PDE Model Formulation.- Fixed Boundary PDE Model Implementation.- Fixed Boundary PDE Model Output.- Moving Boundary PDE Model Implementation.- Moving Boundary PDE Model Output.- Index.

Rezensionen

"This book is intended to practitioners, students and young researchers with interest in solving differential equations by recourse to the R environment." (Luisa Consiglieri, zbMATH 1478.92004, 2022)