A mathematical model for predicting the spatiotemporal response of breast cancer cells treated with doxorubicin

Tumor heterogeneity contributes significantly to chemoresistance, a leading cause of treatment failure. To better personalize therapies, it is essential to develop tools capable of identifying and predicting intra- and inter-tumor heterogeneities. Biology-inspired mathematical models are capable of attacking this problem, but tumor heterogeneity is often overlooked in in-vivo modeling studies, while phenotypic considerations capturing spatial dynamics are not typically included in in-vitro modeling studies. We present a data assimilation-prediction pipeline with a two-phenotype model that includes a spatiotemporal component to characterize and predict the evolution of in-vitro breast cancer cells and their heterogeneous response to chemotherapy. Our model assumes that the cells can be divided into two subpopulations: surviving cells unaffected by the treatment, and irreversibly damaged cells undergoing treatment-induced death. MCF7 breast cancer cells were previously cultivated in wells for up to 1000 hours, treated with various concentrations of doxorubicin and imaged with time-resolved microscopy to record spatiotemporally-resolved cell count data. Images were used to generate cell density maps. Treatment response predictions were initialized by a training set and updated by weekly measurements. Our mathematical model successfully calibrated the spatiotemporal cell growth dynamics, achieving median [range] concordance correlation coefficients of > .99 [.88, >.99] and .73 [.58, .85] across the whole well and individual pixels, respectively. Our proposed data assimilation-prediction approach achieved values of .97 [.44, >.99] and .69 [.35, .79] for the whole well and individual pixels, respectively. Thus, our model can capture and predict the spatiotemporal dynamics of MCF7 cells treated with doxorubicin in an in-vitro setting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:25

Enthalten in:

Cancer biology & therapy - 25(2024), 1 vom: 31. März, Seite 2321769

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Miniere, Hugo J M [VerfasserIn]
Lima, Ernesto A B F [VerfasserIn]
Lorenzo, Guillermo [VerfasserIn]
Hormuth, David A [VerfasserIn]
Ty, Sophia [VerfasserIn]
Brock, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Yankeelov, Thomas E [VerfasserIn]

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80168379AG
Data assimilation
Doxorubicin
Journal Article
Mathematical oncology
Mechanism-based modeling
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Time-resolved microscopy

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Date Completed 28.02.2024

Date Revised 11.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/15384047.2024.2321769

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369013964