User profiles for D. J. Gavaghan

David Gavaghan

Professor of Computational Biology, University of Oxford
Verified email at cs.ox.ac.uk
Cited by 39258

Implementing vertex dynamics models of cell populations in biology within a consistent computational framework

…, JM Osborne, PK Maini, DJ Gavaghan - Progress in biophysics …, 2013 - Elsevier
The dynamic behaviour of epithelial cell sheets plays a central role during development,
growth, disease and wound healing. These processes occur as a result of cell adhesion, …

Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: is blinding necessary?

…, C Jenkinson, DJM Reynolds, DJ Gavaghan… - Controlled clinical …, 1996 - Elsevier
It has been suggested that the quality of clinical trials should be assessed by blinded raters
to limit the risk of introducing bias into meta-analyses and systematic reviews, and into the …

Review of automatic pulmonary lobe segmentation methods from CT

T Doel, DJ Gavaghan, V Grau - Computerized Medical Imaging and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The computational detection of pulmonary lobes from CT images is a challenging segmentation
problem with important respiratory health care applications, including surgical planning …

[HTML][HTML] Chaste: an open source C++ library for computational physiology and biology

…, J Southern, N Zemzemi, DJ Gavaghan - PLoS computational …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Chaste — Cancer, Heart And Soft Tissue Environment — is an open source C++ library for
the computational simulation of mathematical models developed for physiology and biology. …

A numerical guide to the solution of the bidomain equations of cardiac electrophysiology

…, JM Pitt-Francis, JP Whiteley, DJ Gavaghan - Progress in biophysics …, 2010 - Elsevier
Simulation of cardiac electrical activity using the bidomain equations can be a massively
computationally demanding problem. This study provides a comprehensive guide to numerical …

Simulation of multiple ion channel block provides improved early prediction of compounds' clinical torsadogenic risk

…, BM Heath, NC McMahon, DJ Gavaghan… - Cardiovascular …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Aims The level of inhibition of the human Ether-à-go-go-related gene (hERG) channel is one
of the earliest preclinical markers used to predict the risk of a compound causing Torsade-…

An evaluation of homogeneity tests in meta-analyses in pain using simulations of individual patient data

DJ Gavaghan, RA Moore, HJ McQuay - Pain, 2000 - Elsevier
In this paper we consider the validity and power of some commonly used statistics for assessing
the degree of homogeneity between trials in a meta-analysis. We show, using simulated …

Chaste: a test-driven approach to software development for biological modelling

…, JP Whiteley, HM Byrne, DJ Gavaghan - Computer Physics …, 2009 - Elsevier
Chaste (‘Cancer, heart and soft-tissue environment’) is a software library and a set of test
suites for computational simulations in the domain of biology. Current functionality has arisen …

Metabolic changes during carcinogenesis: potential impact on invasiveness

…, RJ Gillies, PK Maini, DJ Gavaghan - Journal of theoretical …, 2007 - Elsevier
Successful adaptation to varying microenvironmental constraints plays a crucial role during
carcinogenesis. We develop a hybrid cellular automation approach to investigate the cell–…

[HTML][HTML] Comparing individual-based approaches to modelling the self-organization of multicellular tissues

…, JM Pitt-Francis, PK Maini, DJ Gavaghan - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The coordinated behaviour of populations of cells plays a central role in tissue growth and
renewal. Cells react to their microenvironment by modulating processes such as movement, …