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1 Ph.D. Student, Bioelectric Department, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor, Bioelectric Department, Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The esophageal carcinoma is the eight most predominate malignancy in the world and the sixth deadliest cancer. 80% of esophageal cancers occur in squamous cells. In Iran, this type of cancer is more prevalent in Golestan province. Before the onset of this type of cancer, histological precursor lesions emerge in the epithelial tissue of esophageal mucosa that their progression and penetration into the underlying layers of epithelium lead to cancer. This disease starts from a pre-clinical phase in most patients. In most cases, the disease progresses to the same clinical stage in the absence of appropriate therapeutic interventions. In the literature of this cancer, there is no model for the progression of these lesions (dysplasia) at the mesoscopic level. In this study, by using microscopic images of normal and low-grade dysplasia biopsy samples, we proposed a dynamical model based on the globally coupled logistic maps. The model was designed and its parameters were set based on the assumptions of the esophageal epithelium structure, functionality and using the information about the fractal geometry of this tissue. The model performance was evaluated by computation the pattern of Lyapunov exponent variations across the epithelium thickness. In this model, the decreasing trend of this index for normal tissue had a reasonable accuracy and sensitivity to diagnose it from the low-grade dysplasia. Besides, the model results show that it can be a direct relationship between the structural complexity of this biological system and its timeliness uncertainty.
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