GlaKG: A Biomarker-Centric Fundus Knowledge Graph for Explainable Glaucoma Diagnosis and Risk Assessment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04673v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:56:39 GMT
• Title: GlaKG: A Biomarker-Centric Fundus Knowledge Graph for Explainable Glaucoma Diagnosis and Risk Assessment
• Abstract summary: We present GlaKG, a biomarker-centric fundus knowledge graph for glaucoma diagnosis and risk stratification.<n>Every prediction is accompanied by an explicit reasoning chain linking biomarker evidence to activated clinical rules.<n>GlaKG reaches F1 = 0.9953 for binary glaucoma classification and 0.930 accuracy with 0.922 weighted F1 for four-class risk stratification.
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• Abstract: Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, yet most automated diagnosis systems rely on opaque deep-learning models that offer little clinical interpretability. We present GlaKG, a biomarker-centric fundus knowledge graph that integrates structural biomarkers, clinically grounded rules, and image features to produce traceable reasoning for glaucoma diagnosis and risk stratification. GlaKG encodes six entity types (Fundus Image, Optic Disc, Neural Rim, Pathology, Diagnosis, Risk Level), eight relation types, and 11 clinically validated rules into a unified graph, so that every prediction is accompanied by an explicit reasoning chain linking biomarker evidence to activated clinical rules. To keep knowledge-based reasoning strictly separate from label information, we adopt a post-processing fusion framework that combines ResNet50 image embeddings with a normalized KG reasoning-chain score via a tunable weight alpha, with all fitting confined to the training split. On a publicly available, AI-annotated fundus dataset, GlaKG reaches F1 = 0.9953 for binary glaucoma classification and 0.930 accuracy with 0.922 weighted F1 for four-class risk stratification; we report openly that the dataset's biomarker annotations are highly label-correlated, and therefore frame these figures as an upper bound attainable with clean structured biomarkers rather than as leakage-free image-only performance. Feature-importance analysis shows KG-derived and biomarker features contributing near-equally (51.1% vs. 48.9%), and the reasoning chain flags borderline cases by exposing low chain scores rather than failing silently. GlaKG's central contribution is therefore a clinically auditable reasoning framework that complements raw predictive performance by explicitly exposing the biomarker evidence and rule activations behind each decision.

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