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Area of Science:

  • Cardiology and Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Signal Processing
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death globally.
  • Understanding age-related physiological changes is crucial for distinguishing normal aging from disease.
  • Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis traditionally relies on feature extraction, potentially obscuring complex data relationships.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-related changes in ECG data from a healthy cohort using advanced AI models.
  • To identify discriminative ECG features associated with different age groups.
  • To explore how AI can provide novel insights into ECG variations across the lifespan.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of ECG data from a diverse healthy population using deep learning and tree-based models.
  • Application of explainable AI (XAI) techniques to identify key ECG features influencing age prediction.
  • Comparison of analyses performed on raw ECG signals versus traditional ECG features.

Main Results:

  • Tree-based models identified age-related declines in inferred breathing rates and high SDANN values in older adults.
  • Deep learning models highlighted the P-wave's significance in predicting age across all groups.
  • Explainable AI pinpointed specific ECG features that effectively differentiate age strata.

Conclusions:

  • AI models offer a powerful approach to uncover subtle, age-related ECG changes beyond traditional feature analysis.
  • Inferred breathing rate and specific heart rhythm parameters (SDANN) show significant age-dependent variations.
  • The P-wave morphology and distribution appear to be critical indicators of biological aging in the cardiovascular system.