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Main Authors: Comlekoglu, Tien, Toledo-Marín, J. Quetzalcóatl, Comlekoglu, Tina, DeSimone, Douglas W., Peirce, Shayn M., Fox, Geoffrey, Glazier, James A.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00316
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author Comlekoglu, Tien
Toledo-Marín, J. Quetzalcóatl
Comlekoglu, Tina
DeSimone, Douglas W.
Peirce, Shayn M.
Fox, Geoffrey
Glazier, James A.
author_facet Comlekoglu, Tien
Toledo-Marín, J. Quetzalcóatl
Comlekoglu, Tina
DeSimone, Douglas W.
Peirce, Shayn M.
Fox, Geoffrey
Glazier, James A.
contents The Cellular-Potts model is a powerful and ubiquitous framework for developing computational models for simulating complex multicellular biological systems. Cellular-Potts models (CPMs) are often computationally expensive due to the explicit modeling of interactions among large numbers of individual model agents and diffusive fields described by partial differential equations (PDEs). In this work, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) surrogate model using a U-Net architecture that accounts for periodic boundary conditions. We use this model to accelerate the evaluation of a mechanistic CPM previously used to investigate in vitro vasculogenesis. The surrogate model was trained to predict 100 computational steps ahead (Monte-Carlo steps, MCS), accelerating simulation evaluations by a factor of 590 times compared to CPM code execution. Over multiple recursive evaluations, our model effectively captures the emergent behaviors demonstrated by the original Cellular-Potts model of such as vessel sprouting, extension and anastomosis, and contraction of vascular lacunae. This approach demonstrates the potential for deep learning to serve as efficient surrogate models for CPM simulations, enabling faster evaluation of computationally expensive CPM of biological processes at greater spatial and temporal scales.
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spellingShingle Surrogate modeling of Cellular-Potts Agent-Based Models as a segmentation task using the U-Net neural network architecture
Comlekoglu, Tien
Toledo-Marín, J. Quetzalcóatl
Comlekoglu, Tina
DeSimone, Douglas W.
Peirce, Shayn M.
Fox, Geoffrey
Glazier, James A.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
The Cellular-Potts model is a powerful and ubiquitous framework for developing computational models for simulating complex multicellular biological systems. Cellular-Potts models (CPMs) are often computationally expensive due to the explicit modeling of interactions among large numbers of individual model agents and diffusive fields described by partial differential equations (PDEs). In this work, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) surrogate model using a U-Net architecture that accounts for periodic boundary conditions. We use this model to accelerate the evaluation of a mechanistic CPM previously used to investigate in vitro vasculogenesis. The surrogate model was trained to predict 100 computational steps ahead (Monte-Carlo steps, MCS), accelerating simulation evaluations by a factor of 590 times compared to CPM code execution. Over multiple recursive evaluations, our model effectively captures the emergent behaviors demonstrated by the original Cellular-Potts model of such as vessel sprouting, extension and anastomosis, and contraction of vascular lacunae. This approach demonstrates the potential for deep learning to serve as efficient surrogate models for CPM simulations, enabling faster evaluation of computationally expensive CPM of biological processes at greater spatial and temporal scales.
title Surrogate modeling of Cellular-Potts Agent-Based Models as a segmentation task using the U-Net neural network architecture
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00316