Title :
Chaotic Behavior in Intracellular Space: An Implication for Modeling and Simulation of Cancer
Author :
Pham, Tuan D. ; Nhan Nguyen-Thanh ; Thang, Truong C. ; Ichikawa, Kazuhisa
Author_Institution :
Aizu Res. Cluster for Med. Eng. & Inf. Center for Adv. Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
Abstract :
Understanding what causes cancer remains the most challenging research in medicine and biology. Biomedical research and clinical trials are spending constant effort in finding out new information regarding anything that has to do with cancer. This is because cancer is a complex disease and our knowledge about cancer is still very primitive. In fact we may never know everything about cancer. We are interested in searching into possible chaotic behavior of cancer in its intracellular space captured by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and focused ion beam (FIB) images using the theory of chaos. Such a study rarely exists in literature and its finding may give some insight into the identification of an appropriately underlying mechanism for computer modeling and simulation of cancer which is very computationally useful and cost-effective for targeted drug treatment of cancer diseases.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; cancer; cellular biophysics; chaos; drug delivery systems; drugs; fluorescence; focused ion beam technology; optical microscopy; scanning electron microscopy; FIB; SEM; biology; biomedical research; cancer diseases; cancer modeling; cancer simulation; chaotic behavior; clinical trials; complex disease; computer modeling; computer simulation; fluorescence microscopy; focused ion beam images; intracellular space; medicine; scanning electron microscopy; targeted drug treatment; Europe; Intracellular space; cancer modeling; chaos; image analysis; system complexity;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Modeling and Simulation (EMS), 2012 Sixth UKSim/AMSS European Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Valetta
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4977-2
DOI :
10.1109/EMS.2012.28
