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DISTING : a web application for fast algorithmic computation of alternative indistinguishable linear compartmental models
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Davidson, Natalie R., Godfrey, Keith R., Alquaddoomi, Faisal, Nola, David and DiStefano, Joseph J. (2017) DISTING : a web application for fast algorithmic computation of alternative indistinguishable linear compartmental models. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 143 . pp. 129-135. doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.02.025 ISSN 0169-2607.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.02.025
Abstract
Background and objectives:
We describe and illustrate use of DISTING, a novel web application for computing alternative structurally identifiable linear compartmental models that are input-output indistinguishable from a postulated linear compartmental model. Several computer packages are available for analysing the structural identifiability of such models, but DISTING is the first to be made available for assessing indistinguishability.
Methods:
The computational algorithms embedded in DISTING are based on advanced versions of established geometric and algebraic properties of linear compartmental models, embedded in a user-friendly graphic model user interface. Novel computational tools greatly speed up the overall procedure. These include algorithms for Jacobian matrix reduction, submatrix rank reduction, and parallelization of candidate rank computations in symbolic matrix analysis.
Results:
The application of DISTING to three postulated models with respectively two, three and four compartments is given. The 2-compartment example is used to illustrate the indistinguishability problem; the original (unidentifiable) model is found to have two structurally identifiable models that are indistinguishable from it. The 3-compartment example has three structurally identifiable indistinguishable models. It is found from DISTING that the four-compartment example has five structurally identifiable models indistinguishable from the original postulated model. This example shows that care is needed when dealing with models that have two or more compartments which are neither perturbed nor observed, because the numbering of these compartments may be arbitrary.
Conclusions:
DISTING is universally and freely available via the Internet. It is easy to use and circumvents tedious and complicated algebraic analysis previously done by hand.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Ireland Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0169-2607 | ||||||||
Official Date: | May 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 143 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 129-135 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.02.025 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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