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    • Cardiology
    • Medical Imaging
    • Artificial Intelligence

    Background:

    • Ascending aortic diameter is a critical cardiovascular parameter.
    • Non-invasive methods for assessing aortic diameter are valuable for cardiovascular health monitoring.
    • Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals contain rich physiological information.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and validate a deep learning model (ECGAI-TAA) for estimating ascending aortic diameter using 12-lead ECG data.
    • To investigate whether ECG-derived aortic diameter estimation is independent of traditional clinical factors.
    • To explore the potential of ECG-based analysis for identifying individuals at higher risk of aortic dilation.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of 69,173 UK Biobank participants, pairing MRI-measured ascending aortic diameter with ECG signals.
    • Training a 1D convolutional neural network (ECGAI-TAA) on 10-second, 500Hz, 12-lead ECG data.
    • Internal validation on 5,191 participants, assessing variance explained and association with aortic dilation threshold (4.0cm).

    Main Results:

    • The ECGAI-TAA model explained 31% of the variance in ascending aortic diameter.
    • This predictive power was not fully explained by clinical factors like age, sex, or blood pressure.
    • Individuals in the top 2.5% of the model's score showed a nearly 16-fold odds ratio for aortic dilation compared to others.

    Conclusions:

    • The ECGAI-TAA deep learning model demonstrates that ascending aortic diameter can be partially estimated from 12-lead ECG.
    • ECG-derived aortic diameter estimation offers potential for non-invasive cardiovascular risk assessment.
    • Further research is needed to validate these findings as an externally validated risk score.