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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Cardiology
Biomedical Engineering

Background:

Cardiovascular risk assessment is crucial for guiding healthcare strategies.
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers new avenues for analyzing medical data.
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are standard diagnostic tools.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate an image-based AI model for ECG analysis.
To estimate biological age (ECG-Age) and predict mortality risk from ECG images.
To assess the feasibility of using AI in ECG interpretation for long-term health predictions.

Main Methods:

A deep-learning model was developed using 978,319 ECG images from 250,145 patients.
The model estimated ECG-Age and 1- and 5-year mortality risks.
External validation was performed using the CODE-15% dataset.

Main Results:

ECG-Age strongly correlated with chronological age (Pearson's R = 0.888 internal, 0.852 external).
The model achieved high AUCs for predicting all-cause (0.843-0.867) and cardiovascular (0.916-0.920) mortality.
Increased Delta-Age (ECG-Age - chronological age) correlated with significantly higher mortality hazard ratios.

Conclusions:

An image-based AI-ECG model is a viable tool for estimating biological age.
The AI-ECG model effectively assesses all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risks.
Standardized ECG images analyzed by AI can predict long-term health outcomes.