About the Authors

Narmin Ghaffari Laleh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Chiara Maria Lavinia Loeffler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Julia Grajek

Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Kateřina Staňková

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Alexander T. Pearson

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Hannah Sophie Muti

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Christian Trautwein

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Heiko Enderling

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jan Poleszczuk

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Computational Oncology, Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland

Jakob Nikolas Kather

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jkather@ukaachen.de

Affiliations Department of Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JNK declares consulting services for Owkin, France and Panakeia, UK. No other potential conflicts of interest are reported by any of the authors.