A stochastic model of tumor angiogenesis

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1007-1011

  Mohammadi, Babak ^a   Haghpanah, Vahid ^a   Larijani, Bagher ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Markov; Modeling; Prognosis; Simulation; Tumor

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ANGIOGENESIS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES; MARKOV; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELING; PROGNOSIS; SIMULATION; SOLID TUMORS; TUMOR; TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS;

TUMORS;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TUMOR GROWTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 50649090223     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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