Imaging-informed BIOmechanical brain tumor forecast MOdelling

Grade 3 and 4 Astrocytomas are high grade gliomas (HGG) that usually result from initially less aggressive low grade gliomas (LGG) through malignant transformation (MT). This process has various definitions in the literature, clinical and histopathological, depending on the scale of the study and researchers' interest. We introduce an overview of different aspects of MT: molecular, clinical and the role of the microenvironment in acquiring the malignant phenotype. Furthermore, we introduce a new hypothesis that could explain the spatial progression of low grade astrocytoma (LGA) during MT. The former hypothesis will next be tested on LGA patients through tumor segmentation from Medical Resonance Images (MRI) and a mechanistic growth model.IBIOM