HIV model parameter estimates from interruption trial data
| Author(s) | Luo, Rutao | |
| Date Accessioned | 2014-02-24T23:02:29Z | |
| Date Available | 2014-02-24T23:02:29Z | |
| Publication Date | 2012 | |
| Abstract | Mathematical models based on ordinary differential equations (ODE) have had signifcant impact on understanding HIV disease dynamics and optimizing patient treatment. A model that characterizes the essential disease dynamics can be used for prediction only if the model parameters are identifiable from clinical data. Most previous studies involved in parameter identification for HIV have used sparse data from the decay phase following the introduction of therapy. In this thesis, model parameters are identified from frequently sampled viral-load data taken from ten patients enrolled in the previously published AutoVac HAART interruption study, providing between 69 and 114 viral load measurements from 3-5 phases of viral decay and rebound for each patient. This dataset is considerably larger than those used in previously published parameter estimation studies. Furthermore, the measurements come from two separate experimental conditions, which allows for the direct estimation of drug efficacy and reservoir contribution rates, two parameters that cannot be identified from decay-phase data alone. A Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo method is used to estimate the model parameter values, with initial estimates obtained using nonlinear least-squares methods. The posterior distributions of the parameter estimates are reported and compared for all patients. | en_US |
| Advisor | Zurakowski, Ryan | |
| Degree | M.S. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/12894 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | HIV infections -- Mathematical models. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Highly active antiretroviral therapy -- Mathematical models. | |
| Title | HIV model parameter estimates from interruption trial data | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |