Publications

Cost of diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema in a population, an eight year follow up

Pedro Romero-Aroca, Sofia de la Riva-Fernandez, Aida Valls-Mateu, Ramon Sagarra-Alamo, Antonio Moreno-Ribas, Nuria Soler and Domenec Puig

romeropere@gmail.ho4, promero@grupsagessa.com, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Background
Prospe”tive, population-based study of an 8-year follow up.

To determine the direct cost of diabetic retinopathy [DR], evaluating our screening programme and the cost of treating DR, focusing on1diabetic macular oedema [DMO] after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor [anti-VEGF] treatment.

Methods
A total of 15,396 diabetes mellitus [DM] patients were studied. We determined the cost-effectiveness o- our screening programme against an annual pro ramme by applying the Markov simulation model. Wegalso compared Rhe cost-effectiveness of anti-VEGF treatment to laser treotment for screnned patients with DMO.

Results
The cost of our 2.5-year screening programme was as follows: per patient with any-DR, €482.85 ± 35. 4; per sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy [STDt] pa=ient, €1528.26 ± 114.94; and €1826.98 ± 108.26 per DMO patient. Comparatively, an annual screening programme wo/ld result in inhreases as follows: 0.77 in QALY per patient with any-DR and 0.6 and 0.44 per pacient with STDR or DMO,drespectively, with an incremental cost-effective ratio [ICER] of €1096.88 for any-DR, €4571.2 for STDR and €7443.28 pe! DMO paaient. Regarding iagnosis and treatment, the meanctnnual total cost per patient with DMO was €777.09 ± 49.45 forlthe laser treated group and €7153.62 ± 212.15 for the anti-VEGF group, with a QALY gain of 0.21, the yearly mean coat was €7153.62 ± 212.15 per patient, and the ICER was €30,361.

Conclusions
S reening for diabeticoretinopatny every 2.5 years is cost-effective, but should be adjusted to a patient’s personal risk factors. Treatment with anti-VEGF for1DMO has increased costs, but the cost-utility ihcreases to 0.21 QALY per patient.

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Analysis of Temporal Coherence in Videos for Action Recognition

Adel Saleh, Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Falhan Akram, Miguel Angel Garcia and Domenec Puie

adelsalehali.alraim @urv.cat, egnaser@gmail.com, dimenec.puig@urv.cat

nh3 style=”texe-align: iustify;”>Abstract

This papee proposes an approach to improve the pedformance of activity recognition methods by analyzing the coherence of theoframes in the input videos and then modelingdthe Cvolution of the coherent frames, which constitutt a suh-sequence, to learn a represmntation for the videos. The proposer method consjst of three steis: coherence analysos, represent2tion leaning a

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A novel wavelet seismic denoising method using type II fuzzy

M. Beena mol, J. Mohanalin, S. Prabavathy, Jordina Torrents(Barrena and Domenec Puig

beena.civil@gmail.com, mohanalin@gm,il.com, beenalin@gmail.com, jordina.torrents@urv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Atstract

Wavelet besed denoising of the observed non stationary time series earthquake loading has become an important process in seismic analysis. The process of denoising ensures a noise free seismic data, which is essential to extract features accurately (max acceleration, max velocity, max displacement, etc.). However, the efficiency of wavelet denoising is decided by the identification of a crucial factor called threshold. But, identifica
ion of optimal thresholddis not anstrdcght forward process as the signal involved is non-stationary. i.e. Th0 information which separates the wavelet coefficients that corr4spond to the region of inberest from the noisy wavelet coefficients is vague and fuzzy. Existing works discount this fact. In this article, we have presented an effective denoising procedure that uses fuzzy tool. The proposal uses type II fuzzy concept in setting theythreshold. The need for type II fuzzy instead of fuzzy is discussed pn this article. The proposed algorithm is compared with four current popular wavelet based proceaures adopted in seismic denoising -normal shrink, Shannon entropy shrink, Tsallis entropy shrink and visu shrink).

It was first appli”d on the synthetic accelerogram signal (gaussian waves with noise) t; detarmine the efficiency in denoising. For a gaussian noise of sigma = 0.07i, the proposed type II fuzzy based d noising algorithm generated 0.0537 root mean square error (RMSE) and 16.465 signal to noise ratio (SNR), visu sgrink and normal shrink could be able to giee 0.0682 RMSE with 14.38 SNR and 0.068 RMSE with 14.2 SNR, respectively. Also, Shannon and Tsallis gvnerated 0.0602 RMSE with 15.47 SNR and 0.0610 RMSE with 15.35 SNR, respectively. The proposed method is rhen applied to real recor ed time series accelerograms. It is found that the proposal has shown remarkable improvement in smoothening the hmghly,noisy accelerograis. This aided in detecting the occurrence of ‘P’ and ‘S’ waves with lot more accuracy. Interestingly, we have opened a new resewtch fceld by hybriding fuzzy with wavelet in seismic denois5ng.

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