OntoMG: a unique and ontological-based intelligent framework for early identification of myasthenia gravis (MG)

Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is a neuromuscular disease causing extreme muscular fatigue, triggering problems with vision, swallowing, speech, mobility, dexterity, and breathing. However, early detection and prediction of MG is a crucial and quite challenging task for medical practitioners. So, in our proposed work, we are focused on introducing an ontology-based intelligent system for the prognosis of patients affected by this neuromuscular disease. The given paper presents a novel framework that employs the concepts of ontology, semantic web rules, and reasoner for deriving whether the patient is tested positive or negative. The suggested framework's effectiveness is assessed by comparing it to machine learning classifiers using parameters from the NIH repository for Myasthenia Gravis. The experimental results show that the ontological-based framework is able to achieve higher accuracy (80.85%), higher precision (78.37%), and higher recall (76.55%) than the existing classifiers used in the recent studies.