Different Strategies for the Treatment of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in China: An Economic Evaluation by Bin Wu, Jin Li, Houwen Lin, Haixiang Wu

“…To assess the cost-effectiveness of bevacizumab compared to ranibizumab, verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT), and usual care for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in China. Methods. A Markov model was developed according to patient visual acuity (VA) in the better-seeing eye (Snellen scale). …”
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Recognition Algorithm of Acoustic Emission Signals Based on Conditional Random Field Model in Storage Tank Floor Inspection Using Inner Detector by Yibo Li, Yuxiang Zhang, Huiyu Zhu, Rongxin Yan, Yuanyuan Liu, Liying Sun, Zhoumo Zeng

“…To validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, the recognition result of CRF model was compared with BP (Back Propagation), SVM (Support Vector Machine), and HMM (Hidden Markov Model). The results show that training speed, accuracy, and ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) results of the CRF model outperform other methods.…”
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Cost-effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation (TM) for treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). by Erik J Groessl, Thomas R Rutledge

“…The proportion of participants with a clinically significant improvement on the CAPS (≥10 point reduction) were TM = 61%, PE = 42%, and HE = 32%. A Markov model was developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of TM, using the trial effectiveness data. …”
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Understanding experiences of neglected tropical diseases of the skin: a mixed-methods study to inform intervention development in Ethiopia by Michael Marks, David Mabey, Ruth Canter, Elizabeth Allen, Charles Opondo, Jennifer Palmer, Iris Mosweu, Jacob Novignon, Sinéad Langan, Maria Zuurmond, Catherine Pitt, Stephen L Walker, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Tara Mtuy, Rachel L Pullan, Richard Phillips, Daniel Okyere, Anthony Ablordey, Samantha Owen, Portia Boakye Okyere, Kidist Bobosha, Katherine Halliday, Steve Walker, Galana Mamo Ayana, Rachel Pullan, Mirgissa Kaba, Tara B Mtuy, Yaw Amoako, Adwoa Asante-Poku, Abigail Agbanyo, Eric Koka, Joseph Timothy, Yohannes Hailemichael, Abebaw Yeshambel Alemu, Teklu Cherkose, Getachew Kebebew, Fikregabrail Aberra Kassa, Tedros Nigusse, Kibur Engedawork, Zenebu Begna, Abay Waday, Saba Lambert, Katherine Elizabeth Halliday, Endalamaw Gadisa, Vanessa Yardley, Collins Ahorlu, Anita Achiaa Gyekye, Emmanuel Afreh, Esther Amon, Abraham Kwabena Anang, Ruth Dede Tuwor, Giulia D’Odorico, Kibur Engidawork, Mehari Getaneh, Bernadette Morkporkpor, Emmanuel Narh, Dorcas Opai-Tetteh, Yohannes Michael, Amel Mohammed, Fewzia Shikur Mohammed, Shimelis Doni Nigusse, Maja Niksic, Edmond Okloo, Michael Oppong, Lucy Owusu, Ishaque Siam, Ingrid Sobel, Feleke Tilahum, Joseph Tuffour, Abay Woday, Abebaw Yeshambel, Adelaide Forkuo- Boadu, Derrick Kontoh, Jojo Cobbinah

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Modelled Public Health Impact of Introducing Adjuvanted Recombinant Zoster Vaccine into the UK National Immunisation Programme by Manjit Hunjan, Desmond Curran, Alen Marijam, Yasmeeta Vekria, Nikolaos Giannelos

“…Methods PHI was evaluated from a National Health Service perspective, as cases of HZ, post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), non-PHN complications and deaths, hospitalisations, and general practitioner (GP) visits avoided using a multicohort Markov model. Three scenarios (RZV vs. no vaccination, ZVL vs. no vaccination, and RZV vs. …”
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Economic evaluation of childhood pneumococcal conjugate vaccination programs in Qinghai and Hainan provinces, China by Haonan Zhang, Chaofan Wang, Haijun Zhang, Brian Wahl, Maria Deloria Knoll, Xiaozhen Lai, Hai Fang

“…This study evaluated the health and economic impact of including PCV in immunization programs in Qinghai and Hainan.Research design and methods A decision tree Markov model was constructed to simulate health outcomes and lifetime costs among children under different 13-valent PCV (PCV13) vaccination strategies compared to current practices, from societal and healthcare perspectives. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Ruxolitinib vs Best Available Therapy in the Treatment of Myelofibrosis in Spain by María Teresa Gómez-Casares, Juan Carlos Hernández-Boluda, Antonio Jiménez-Velasco, Joaquin Martínez-López, María Giovanna Ferrario, Irmina Gozalbo, Joana Gostkorzewicz, Rudi Subirá

“…**Methods:** A decision-tree and Markov model were adapted to the Spanish setting to assess the cost-effectiveness of ruxolitinib vs. …”
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Causality-driven feature selection and domain adaptation for enhancing chemical foundation models in downstream tasks by Eduardo Soares, Victor Yukio Shirasuna, Emilio Vital Brazil, Karen Fiorella Aquino Gutierrez, Renato Cerqueira, Dmitry Zubarev, Kristin Schmidt, Daniel P Sanders

“…By employing Mordred descriptors and Markov blanket causal graphs, our approach provides insight into the causal relationships between features and target properties for prediction tasks. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of Catheter Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Canadian Perspective by Yaariv Khaykin, Peter J. Mallow, John A. Rizzo, Atul Verma, Lauren Chun, Shelby Olesovsky, Matthew R. Reynolds

“…**Objective:** The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of CA compared to AAD for AF based on community practice. **Methods:** A Markov simulation model was developed for a hypothetical cohort of 55-year-old patients with paroxysmal AF and a low stroke risk. …”
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Unit costs and cost-effectiveness of a device to improve TB treatment adherence in China by S. Sweeney, K. Fielding, X. Liu, J.A. Thompson, H. Dong, S. Jiang, Y. Zhao, S. Huan, A. Vassall

“…We estimated the incremental cost-effectiveness of MERM using a Markov model with a 20-year time horizon; a 3% discount rate was applied to costs and outcomes. …”
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Sternal-Wound Infections following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft: Could Implementing Value-Based Purchasing be Beneficial? by Dominique Brandt, Maximilian Blüher, Julie Lankiewicz, Peter J. Mallow, Rhodri Saunders

“…Data, including SWI rates, CABG volume, and length of stay, were used to populate a previously published Markov model that simulates the patient’s CABG-care pathway and estimates the economic (US$) and care burden of SWIs for each country. …”
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Optimal integration of photovoltaic sources and capacitor banks considering irradiance, temperature, and load changes in electric distribution system by Khaled Fettah, Ahmed Salhi, Talal Guia, Abdelaziz Salah Saidi, Abir Betka, Madjid Teguar, Hisham Alharbi, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim, Takele Ferede Agajie, Ramy N. R. Ghaly

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Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Eribulin Mesylate as a Treatment for Metastatic Breast Cancer in Spain: Management in the Later Line of Therapy by Gabriel Tremblay, Unnati Majethia, Ilias Kontoudis, Jesús De Rosendo

“…The study objective was to compare the cost-effectiveness of eribulin in Spain as a second-line treatment for HER2-negative MBC with its current status as a third-line treatment for patients who have received capecitabine. **Methods:** A Markov model was developed from the perspective of the Spanish healthcare system. …”
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Spatio-temporal differentiation and influencing factors of high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas in China by Qiyan Ding, Zhen Yang, Zhen Yang, Zhouyu Huang

“…Based on data at the provincial level, this study used the entropy method, Dagum Gini coefficient decomposition, and spatial Markov chain to estimate the spatio-temporal differentiation of high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas (HQDAR) in China from 2008 to 2022. …”
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Towards Privacy-Aware and Trustworthy Data Sharing Using Blockchain for Edge Intelligence by Youyang Qu, Lichuan Ma, Wenjie Ye, Xuemeng Zhai, Shui Yu, Yunfeng Li, David Smith

“…To avoid linkage attacks in personalized differential privacy, we design a noise correlation decoupling mechanism using a Markov stochastic process. In addition, we build the community model on a blockchain, which can mitigate the risk of poisoning attacks during differentially private data transmission over SHNs. …”
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A Time-Varying Coupling Analysis of Expressway Traffic Volume and Manufacturing PMI by Shuo Sun, Mingchen Gu, Yingping Wang, Rongjie Lin, Lifeng Xing, Zhiyuan Xu

“…The time-varying parameters of TVP-VAR are estimated using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) theory. Finally, the model is validated using examples from China. …”
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A Reinforcement Learning Model for Optimal Treatment Strategies in Intensive Care: Assessment of the Role of Cardiorespiratory Features by Cristian Drudi, Maximiliano Mollura, Li-wei H. Lehman, Riccardo Barbieri

“…We selected patients meeting the Sepsis-3 criteria from the Multi-parameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care (MIMIC III) database, resulting in a total of 20,496 ICU admissions. A Markov Decision Process (MDP) was built on the extracted discrete time-series. …”
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Impacto clínico y económico del control del colesterol LDL en pacientes con enfermedad cardiovascular aterosclerótica y riesgo cardiovascular alto y muy alto: un estudio de simulac... by Mateo Ceballos, Sara Arias, Carlos Gamboa

“…Método: Se construyó un modelo de Markov desde la perspectiva del sistema de salud colombiano, para simular el impacto de una reducción del 50% del c-LDL en la ocurrencia de eventos cardiovasculares mayores y costos directos evitados, en un horizonte temporal de 5 y 10 años. …”
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Uncertainty quantification of CT regularized reconstruction within the Bayesian framework by Negin Khoeiniha, Patricio Guerrero, Wim Dewulf

“…To achieve these goals, we apply a rapid regularized Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) reconstruction method [4, 5], employing the Metropolis-Adjusted Langevin Algorithm (MALA) [6] and its Lipschitz-adaptive variant (LipMALA) [7]. …”
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Burden of HPV-induced diseases and cost effectiveness of catch-up vaccination in Czech Republic: a model-based study by Vojtech Kamenský, Lukáš Dostálek, Martin Rožánek, Aleš Tichopád, Roman Prymula, Ivana Šarkanová

“…This study analyses the health and economic impacts of HPV-associated diseases in the Czech Republic and evaluates the cost-effectiveness of a catch-up vaccination program. Methods Utilizing a Markov multistate model, the study assesses the lifetime impacts and costs related to HPV infections. …”
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