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A. A. Patel, E. T. Gawlinski, S. K. Lemieux and R. A. Gatenby, “A Cellular Automaton Model of Early Tumor Growth and Invasion: The Effects of Native Tissue Vascularity and Increased Anaerobic Tumor Metabolism,” Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 213, No. 3, 2001, pp. 315-331.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.2001.2385

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• TITLE: A High-Performance Cellular Automaton Model of Tumor Growth with Dynamically Growing Domains

  AUTHORS: Jan Poleszczuk, Heiko Enderling

  KEYWORDS: Cellular Automaton; Dynamic Boundaries; Tumor Model, Cancer Stem Cells; Sensitivity Analysis

  JOURNAL NAME: Applied Mathematics, Vol.5 No.1, January 10, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Tumor growth from a single transformed cancer cell up to a clinically apparent mass spans many spatial and temporal orders of magnitude. Implementation of cellular automata simulations of such tumor growth can be straightforward but computing performance often counterbalances simplicity. Computationally convenient simulation times can be achieved by choosing appropriate data structures, memory and cell handling as well as domain setup. We propose a cellular automaton model of tumor growth with a domain that expands dynamically as the tumor population increases. We discuss memory access, data structures and implementation techniques that yield high-performance multi-scale Monte Carlo simulations of tumor growth. We discuss tumor properties that favor the proposed high-performance design and present simulation results of the tumor growth model. We estimate to which parameters the model is the most sensitive, and show that tumor volume depends on a number of parameters in a non-monotonic manner.