Cross-Sectional Study for an Ocular Imaging-Based Predictive Model of Inflammatory Skin Diseases Grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Yueyang Integrated Medicine Hospital
- Enrollment
- 950
- Primary Endpoint
- A TCM ocular diagnostic feature spectrum
Overview
Brief Summary
This study is a cross-sectional, observational investigation designed to develop and validate a noninvasive ocular imaging-based predictive model for major inflammatory skin diseases, including psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and urticaria. Grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) ocular diagnostic theory and integrated with advanced computer vision techniques, the study aims to establish objective, quantifiable biomarkers derived from scleral and bulbar conjunctival images.
Approximately 950 participants (patients with psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, and healthy controls) will be recruited from a tertiary academic hospital. Standardized high-resolution ocular images will be collected alongside comprehensive clinical, demographic, and comorbidity data. Disease severity will be assessed using validated clinical scoring systems (e.g., PASI, EASI, UAS7, DLQI).
Image analysis will combine traditional radiomics feature extraction with deep learning architectures, including a Vision State-Space (VMamba) module for global-local feature representation and a Multi-Gate Mixture-of-Experts (MMoE) framework for multi-task learning. The model is designed to simultaneously perform disease classification and predict comorbidity risks (such as metabolic syndrome, hepatic insulin resistance, and recurrence risk).
Primary outcomes include characterization of ocular feature patterns associated with inflammatory skin diseases. Secondary outcomes include correlations between ocular image-derived features and clinical severity indices. Model performance will be evaluated using ROC curves, AUC, calibration analysis, and decision curve analysis.
This study aims to provide an objective, digitalized, and clinically applicable ocular biomarker framework to support early diagnosis, risk stratification, and comorbidity screening in inflammatory skin diseases.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Other
- Time Perspective
- Cross Sectional
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •For patients with inflammatory skin disease:
- •Clinical diagnosis of one of the three target inflammatory skin diseases (psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, or urticaria).
- •Age ≥ 18 and ≤ 65 years, any sex.
- •Understands and signs informed consent.
- •For healthy controls:
- •Do not meet diagnostic criteria for any of the three inflammatory skin diseases above.
- •Age ≥ 18 and ≤ 65 years, any sex.
- •Understands and signs informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria
- •For patients with inflammatory skin disease:
- •Exclude any subject meeting any of the following:
- •Refusal to undergo examinations.
- •Presence of acute/active infectious ocular disease (e.g., viral keratoconjunctivitis).
- •Corneal perforation or high-risk perforation where contact procedures cause severe photophobia, eye pain, inability to keep eyes open or fixate.
- •Nystagmus or other conditions that prevent fixation.
- •Pupillary non-dilation (e.g., posterior synechiae) that precludes fundus imaging.
- •Severe eyelid lesions (e.g., marked swelling, ectropion, entropion) that prevent globe exposure.
- •Participation in other clinical trials within the previous 3 months or concurrent participation in other interventional studies.
- •Healthy control - exclusion criteria
Arms & Interventions
Psoriasis subjects
Intervention: Questionnaire collection (Other)
Atopic dermatitis subjects
Intervention: Questionnaire collection (Other)
Urticaria subjects
Intervention: Questionnaire collection (Other)
Healthy controls
Intervention: Questionnaire collection (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
A TCM ocular diagnostic feature spectrum
Time Frame: 2026.03.05-2028.03.05
A TCM ocular diagnostic feature spectrum: overall prevalence and pattern combinations of ocular features in the psoriasis group. Incidence rates of characteristic ocular change
Secondary Outcomes
- Correlations (Spearman's rho) between ocular feature scores and clinical severity scales(2026.03.05-2028.03.05)