Disease dynamics (Q1346211)

This is a book about mathematical modeling, analysis and control of the immune system and disease dynamics. The purpose of the book is the practical application of mathematics to immunology and medicine to established a basis for more effective treatment, to provide a tutorial systematic description of how the immune system controls diseases and to present several significant examples such as malignant tumor dynamics and control, viral hepatitis, etc. The book is multidisciplinary in content, with the intended readers including biomathematicians, biostatisticians, bioengineers, immunologists, system scientists, applied mathematicians, biologists and physicists. The book is an integration of immunological principles, mathematical models, computer simulations and methods of analysis. The integrated multidisciplinary development from basic principles to complex disease analysis is quite unique. The rigorous mathematical approach to problem solving is unique in this field as is the analysis of clinical data which is so rarely found in theoretical biology books. The contents are divided into three parts: I. Models; II. Clinical data processing; III. Mathematical models in cancer research. Biologists and immunologists will be able to learn new approaches to data analysis and experimental planning. Clinicians can learn new methods useful in disease control and treatment.