Modelling skin disease: Lessons from the worlds of mathematics, physics and computer science

Australasian Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 61-69

  Gilmore, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Congenital naevi; Erythema gyratum repens; Genetic networks; Information theory; Lines of Blaschko; Melanoma; Pattern formation; Psoriasis; Self organised criticality

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGENITAL NEVUS; ERYTHEMA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MELANOMA; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; TUMOR GROWTH;

HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 19044379743     PISSN: 00048380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2005.00143.x     Document Type: Review

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