期刊
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
卷 360, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2019.112700
关键词
Biomechanics; Multiscale modeling; Agent-based modeling
资金
- National Science Foundation, United States of America Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE-114747]
- National Science Foundation, United States of America CAREER [1553638]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1553638] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Linking individual cell behavior to changes on the cell population and ultimately tissue scale is a key step towards connecting in vitro laboratory experiments to clinically relevant organ-scale behavior. For example, understanding how an individual tumor cell's response to drug treatments propagates to the macroscale could help guide clinical decision making when tumors are located in high stakes regions. Based on how dying cells interact, macroscale tumor response can be dominated by tumor shrinkage, tumor damage, change in tumor porosity, or some combination of these phenomena. Here we focus on methods of modeling collective cell behavior with the overall goal of understanding how stochastic cell behavior will ultimately manifest on the cell population scale. To do this, we define and implement an agent-based model problem, introduce novel methods for interpreting simulation results, implement a recently developed technique for conducting a variance-based sensitivity analysis, and investigate key model parameters. Operating within an in silico framework allows us to compare our proposed methods with and without reproducible stochastic variations. This is critical because methods that will be functional for interpreting experimental data must also be able to function when aspects of stochastic variation are not reproducible. To demonstrate the utility of our proposed methods, we identify important simulation parameters for our agent-based model, show that two-dimensional and three-dimensional results are not directly equivalent, and highlight the macroscale implications of cell shrinkage. Looking forward, we anticipate that the methods and results presented here will contribute to significant future research in modeling stochastic cell behavior in the multiscale setting. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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