Fig. 3

Screenshot of a graph rendering with σ _max =14: The graph consists of 14 distinct cells (also denoted to as cellular clusters). Each cell is represented by a certain amount of nodes that we call cellular bricks. Cellular bricks with dark red or purple color tones correspond to the dark (tumor/mutated) cells, while nodes in a light shade of blue to green are referencing the so called light (normal/healthy) cells. The amount of these are listed in the table below the graph visualization. For this example, the cell with i d=9, represented by the purple nodes, consists of 39 cellular bricks at the initialization phase. After 2 computation steps, we see at the right side, that the cell with i d=9 has grown and now holds 465 cellular bricks. Grey nodes represent the ECM