A Hybrid-System Model of the Coagulation Cascade

TitleA Hybrid-System Model of the Coagulation Cascade
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2013
AuthorsMakin, J., & Narayanan S.
Page(s)206-212
Other Numbers3403
Abstract

The process of human blood clotting involves a com-plex interaction of continuous-time/continuous-stateprocesses and discrete-event/discrete-state phenom-ena, where the former comprise the various chemicalrate equations and the latter comprise both threshold-limited behaviors and binary states (presence/absenceof a chemical). Whereas previous blood-clotting mod-els used only continuous dynamics and perforce ad-dressed only portions of the coagulation cascade, wecapture both continuous and discrete aspects by mod-eling it as a hybrid dynamical system. The model wasimplemented as a hybrid Petri net, a graphical model-ing language that extends ordinary Petri nets to covercontinuous quantities and continuous-timeflows. The primary focus is simulation; specifically, we are inter-ested in (1) fidelity of simulation to the actual clottingprocess in terms of clotting factor concentrations andelapsed time; (2) simulating known clotting patholo-gies; and (3) providing fine-grained predictions whichmay be used to refine clinical understanding of bloodclotting. Finally, we examine the sensitivity of a criti-cal purely-continuous subsystem to rate-constant per-turbation.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/ai/coagulationcascade13.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB2013), pp. 206-212, Honolulu, Hawaii

Abbreviated Authors

J. Makin and S. Narayanan

ICSI Research Group

AI

ICSI Publication Type

Article in conference proceedings