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Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Informatics

Background:

  • Traditional atrial fibrillation (AF) classification by duration has limitations.
  • Mechanistic and prognostic diversity within AF subtypes remains poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an AI-driven framework for mapping AF heterogeneity.
  • To identify distinct AF phenogroups with varying disease risks and outcomes.
  • To augment traditional AF classification with a risk-stratified dimension.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a variational autoencoder trained on over 1.1 million ECGs to extract features from 20,291 AF patients.
  • Applied unsupervised tree-based clustering to these features to create a phenogroup structure.
  • Analyzed phenogroup characteristics for disease risk stratification and clinical correlation.

Main Results:

  • Identified five distinct AF phenogroups, stratified by future disease risk.
  • Phenogroup 2 represented highest-risk AF with heart failure (HF), indicating advanced disease and mortality risk.
  • Paroxysmal AF phenogroups (4 and 5) showed differences in risk and ventricular structure, with phenogroup 5 having more adverse features.
  • The AI-ECG framework demonstrated explainability through tree trajectories mapping individual patient traits.

Conclusions:

  • An AI-ECG framework can effectively map AF heterogeneity beyond traditional duration-based subtypes.
  • The identified phenogroups provide a novel risk-based stratification for atrial fibrillation patients.
  • This approach supports personalized medicine by offering deeper insights into AF prognosis and management.