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A 3D computational model for understanding tuberculosis lesions dynamics in lungs

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dc.contributor Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio
dc.contributor Prats, Clara
dc.creator Català Sabaté, Martí
dc.date 2016-11-09T15:49:59Z
dc.date 2016-11-09T15:49:59Z
dc.date 2016-06
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:23:28Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:23:28Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/103509
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16058
dc.description Màster Oficial en Física Avançada, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2016, Tutors: Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Clara Prats
dc.description Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which most commonly affects the lungs. In healthy people, an infection with Mtb often causes no symptoms, remaining controlled as a non-contagious latent tuberculosis infection. World Health Organization estimates that one third of the world population is already infected by this bacillus. From those, a 10% will probably develop an active disease the next decade. Nowadays, over 1 million people die annually because of an active TB. The mechanisms that maintain a latent infection for a few years or that make it evolving towards an active disease are not fully understood, yet. In a previous work, the dynamics of TB lesions during an active disease in mice was described by an Agent-Based Model (ABM). This model accounted for the growth, coalescence and proliferation of lesions, showing that the most important mechanism for lesions growth during the active disease was coalescence. In a later work, the dynamics of lesions during a latent infection in minipigs was tackled by implementing a revised version of the previous ABM into a computational model of the bronchial tree. The model was fed with Computed Tomography scan data from latent infection in minipigs. In this case, the model showed that the proliferation of lesions through the bronchial tree was essential for maintaining the latent infection. In this Master thesis we propose a first approach on the evolution of a latent tuberculosis infection into an active disease. The parameter space will be explored trying to elucidate which is the role of each mechanism on the trigger for the disease
dc.format 10 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Català, 2016
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Màster Oficial - Física Avançada
dc.subject Tuberculosi
dc.subject Visualització tridimensional
dc.subject Pulmó
dc.subject Treballs de fi de màster
dc.subject Tuberculosis
dc.subject Three-dimensional display systems
dc.subject Lung
dc.subject Master's theses
dc.title A 3D computational model for understanding tuberculosis lesions dynamics in lungs
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis


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