A Spatial Statistical Analysis of Tumor Growth
肿瘤生长的空间统计分析
Growth models for tumors commonly are developed for a one-dimensional summary (e.g., number of cells, volume). At the supracellular level, however, ignoring tumor shape leads to oversimplification of the growth mechanism. For example, an oncologist would view the discovery of a compact tumor of volume v differently from the discovery of two osculatory compact tumors each of volume v/2. This article presents a growth model that uses shape information at a previous time to…