OMGMed: Advanced System for Ocular Myasthenia Gravis Diagnosis via Eye Image Segmentation

This paper presents an eye image segmentation-based computer-aided system for automatic diagnosis of ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG), called OMGMed. It provides great potential to effectively liberate the diagnostic efficiency of expert doctors (the scarce resources) and reduces the cost of healthcare treatment for diagnosed patients, making it possible to disseminate high-quality myasthenia gravis healthcare to under-developed areas. The system is composed of data pre-processing, indicator calculation, and automatic OMG scoring. Building upon this framework, an empirical study on the eye segmentation algorithm is conducted. It further optimizes the algorithm from the perspectives of “network structure” and “loss function”, and experimentally verifies the effectiveness of the hybrid loss function. The results show that the combination of “nnUNet” network structure and “Cross-Entropy + Iou + Boundary” hybrid loss function can achieve the best segmentation performance, and its MIOU on the public and private myasthenia gravis datasets reaches 82.1% and 83.7%, respectively. The research has been used in expert centers. The pilot study demonstrates that our research on eye image segmentation for OMG diagnosis is very helpful in improving the healthcare quality of expert doctors. We believe that this work can serve as an important reference for the development of a similar auxiliary diagnosis system and contribute to the healthy development of proactive healthcare services.