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  1. A deep learning algorithm for automatic 3D segmentation and classification of the sheep placenta in magnetic resonance images

    Article • Physiological Reports, April 2026, Wiley

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  2. A Physics Constrained Machine Learning Pipeline for Young's Modulus Prediction in Multimaterial Hyperelastic Cylinders Guided by Contact Mechanics

    Article • Advanced Intelligent Discovery, December 2025, Wiley

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  3. In silico quantification of the stiffness perceived by cells inside porous collagen-based scaffolds

    Article • Materials & Design, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  4. A longitudinal MRI dataset of brain metastases with tumor segmentations, clinical & radiomic data

    Article • Scientific Data, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  5. Brain cancer in silico modeling - The 2024 roadmap

    Article • November 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  6. Personalised in silico modelling to predict radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis in lung cancer patients

    Article • September 2025, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  7. Skin in the game: a review of computational models of the skin

    Article • BioData Mining, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  8. Feasibility of multimodal magnetic resonance imaging to assess maternal hyperoxygenation in sheep pregnancy

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, February 2025, Wiley

    Jack R.T. Darby, Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  9. Personalized in silico model for radiation-induced pulmonary fibrosis

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, November 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  10. Personalised in silico biomechanical modelling towards the optimisation of high dose-rate brachytherapy planning and treatment against prostate cancer

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, October 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  11. Agent-based modeling in cancer biomedicine: applications and tools for calibration and validation

    Article • Cancer Biology & Therapy, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  12. The influence of internal pressure and neuromuscular agents on C. elegans biomechanics: an empirical and multi-compartmental in silico modelling study

    Article • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, March 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  13. Displacement and Pressure Reconstruction from Magnetic Resonance Elastography Images: Application to an In Silico Brain Model

    Article • SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, June 2023, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  14. An adaptive semi‐implicit finite element solver for brain cancer progression modeling

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, May 2023, Wiley

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  15. Numerical models for breast surgery and reconstruction

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  16. Combined anti-angiogenic and cytotoxic treatment of a solid tumour: in silico investigation of a xenograft animal model’s digital twin

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  17. Should the Proximal Part of a Bifurcated Aortic Graft be Kept as Short as Possible? A Computational Study Elucidates on Aortic Graft Hemodynamics for Various Main Body Lengths

    Article • Annals of Vascular Surgery, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  18. Convection-Enhanced Delivery In Silico Study for Brain Cancer Treatment

    Article • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, May 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  19. Multimodal Structural Analysis of the Human Aorta: From Valve to Bifurcation

    Article • European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  20. Interrogating and Quantifying In Vitro Cancer Drug Pharmacodynamics via Agent-Based and Bayesian Monte Carlo Modelling

    Article • Pharmaceutics, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  21. Interrogating an in silico model to determine helium plasma jet and chemotherapy efficacy against B16F10 melanoma cells

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, January 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  22. BioDynaMo: a modular platform for high-performance agent-based simulation

    Article • Bioinformatics, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  23. Investigating the reference domain influence in personalised models of cardiac mechanics

    Article • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  24. Breast cancer surgery with augmented reality

    Article • The Breast, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  25. From tumour perfusion to drug delivery and clinical translation of in silico cancer models

    Article • Methods, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  26. An in silico hybrid continuum-/agent-based procedure to modelling cancer development: Interrogating the interplay amongst glioma invasion, vascularity and necrosis

    Article • Methods, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  27. Decompressive craniectomy of post-traumatic brain injury: an in silico modelling approach for intracranial hypertension management

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  28. Engineered magnetoactive collagen hydrogels with tunable and predictable mechanical response

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering C, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  29. BioDynaMo: a general platform for scalable agent-based simulation

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  30. Biomechanical modelling of spinal tumour anisotropic growth

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, June 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  31. A quantitative in silico platform for simulating cytotoxic and nanoparticle drug delivery to solid tumours

    Article • Interface Focus, April 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  32. Correction: In-silico dynamic analysis of cytotoxic drug administration to solid tumours: Effect of binding affinity and vessel permeability

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, March 2019, PLOS

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  33. Radiation-induced fibrosis in breast cancer: A protocol for an observational cross-sectional pilot study for personalised risk estimation and objective assessment

    Article • International Journal of Surgery Protocols, January 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  34. In-silico dynamic analysis of cytotoxic drug administration to solid tumours: Effect of binding affinity and vessel permeability

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, October 2018, PLOS

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  35. Tapering analysis of airways with bronchiectasis

    Article • March 2018, SPIE

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  36. Multiscale biphasic modelling of peritumoural collagen microstructure: The effect of tumour growth on permeability and fluid flow

    Article • PLOS One, September 2017, PLOS

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  37. A Validated Multiscale In-Silico Model for Mechano-sensitive Tumour Angiogenesis and Growth

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2017, PLOS

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  38. Multiscale Mechano-Biological Finite Element Modelling of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery—Numerical Study towards Surgical Planning and Cosmetic Outcome Prediction

    Article • PLOS One, July 2016, PLOS

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  39. Surface driven biomechanical breast image registration

    Article • March 2016, SPIE

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  40. Numerical modeling of non-Newtonian biomagnetic fluid flow

    Article • Computers & Fluids, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  41. A review of biomechanically informed breast image registration

    Article • Physics in Medicine and Biology, January 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  42. Breast Conserving Surgery Outcome Prediction: A Patient-Specific, Integrated Multi-modal Imaging and Mechano-Biological Modelling Framework

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  43. Symmetric Biomechanically Guided Prone-to-Supine Breast Image Registration

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  44. Multiscale modelling of solid tumour growth: the effect of collagen micromechanics

    Article • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  45. An Inverse Finite Element u/p-Formulation to Predict the Unloaded State of In Vivo Biological Soft Tissues

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  46. The influence of intraluminal thrombus on noninvasive abdominal aortic aneurysm wall distensibility measurement

    Article • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  47. Limit lateral resistance of vertical piles in plane strain

    Article • May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  48. A numerical investigation of flow around octopus-like arms: near-wake vortex patterns and force development

    Article • Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  49. Breast deformation modelling: comparison of methods to obtain a patient specific unloaded configuration

    Article • March 2014, SPIE

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  50. A robust finite element approach for large deformation elastoplastic plane-strain problems

    Article • Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  51. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Rupture Risk Assessment Exploiting Dynamic (4D) CT Based Wall Motion Data and Finite Element Analysis

    Article • June 2013, ASME International

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  52. Assessment of remeshing and remapping strategies for large deformation elastoplastic Finite Element analysis

    Article • Computers & Structures, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  53. A nonlinear dynamic finite element approach for simulating muscular hydrostats

    Article • Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Asimina Kazakidi, Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  54. Generation of primitive behaviors for non-linear hyperelastic octopus-inspired robotic arm

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  55. Hydrodynamic analysis of octopus-like robotic arms

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  56. Coupled fluid–structure interaction hemodynamics in a zero-pressure state corrected arterial geometry

    Article • Journal of Biomechanics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  57. A meshless local boundary integral equation method for two-dimensional steady elliptic problems

    Article • Computational Mechanics, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  58. Numerical determination of modal dispersion and AE signal characterization in waveguides through LBIE/BEM and time–frequency analysis

    Article • Computational Mechanics, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  59. A MLPG(LBIE) numerical method for solving 2D incompressible and nearly incompressible elastostatic problems

    Article • Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, December 2006, Wiley

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  60. A NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE PROPAGATION OF TRANSIENT ELASTIC WAVES IN AXISYMMETRIC VESSELS

    Article • August 2006, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis

  61. WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLATES WITH MICROSTRUCTURE

    Article • July 2004, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Vasileios Vavourakis