Provides manual and automatic analysis of MG using paired-sample t-test
| Method | Mean loss area (%) | Mean time |
| Manual analysis | 28.55±12.75 | 15±3.4 min |
| MG-GAN analysis | 30.1±12.64 | Less than a minute |
| Mask R-CNN | 30.6±12.33 | Less than a minute |
| GAN | 30.8±12.21 | Less than a minute |
| U-net analysis | 30.9±12.13 | Less than a minute |
| FCN analysis | 31.6±11.90 | Less than a minute |
| Adaptive thresholding | 33.91±10.50 | Less than a minute |
FCN, Fully Convolutional Network; MG-GAN, meibomian gland-generative adversarial network; RCNN, Region Based Convolutional Neural Networks.