RESEARCH ARTICLE


On Some Probabilistic Aspects of Diffusion Models for Tissue Growth



Jozef Kiseľák1, Kamal Raj Pardasani2, Neeru Adlakha2, Milan Stehlík1, *, Mamta Agrawal2
1 Department of Applied Statistics, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, A-4040 Linz a. D., Austria.
2 Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India

Article Information


Identifiers and Pagination:

Year: 2013
Volume: 5
First Page: 14
Last Page: 21
Publisher Id: TOSPJ-5-14
DOI: 10.2174/1876527001305010014

Article History:

Received Date: 28/8/2013
Revision Received Date: 28/9/2013
Acceptance Date: 15/10/2013
Electronic publication date: 29/11/2013
Collection year: 2013

© 2013 Agrawal et al.;

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* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Applied Statistics, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, A-4040 Linz a. D., Austria. Tel: +43 732 2468 6806, Fax: +43 732 2468 9846; E-mail: Milan.Stehlik@jku.at,


Abstract

Understanding of tissue growth is in its nature multidisciplinary, since it varies from cancer diagnostics, image processing, fractal analysis to regular and non-regular heat flows. By medical sciences it was requested to better understood the tissue grow relation to mathematical modelling (stochastic geometry, fractal growth, diffusions). It is clear, that deterministic fractal is not an appropriate model for cancer growth. Stochastic fractal is more appropriate, however, a validation measure should be developed for better comparability with advanced stochastic geometry model, e.g. Quermass- interaction process. Moreover, relation temperature-geometry of the tissue is studied. We have partial results, where it is observed, that benign alterations and malignant tumors originating from glandular tissues (e.g.mammary, prostatic, pancreatic) are naturally modelled by non-standard diffusions. For standard diffusions, fair approximation is provided by analytical models based on convective heat transfer in infinite tissues volume (e.g. model given by Perl 1962, later extended by [1]).

Keywords: Cancer, diffusion, temperature.