Communications Medicine (Dec 2022)

Deep learning-based age estimation from chest X-rays indicates cardiovascular prognosis

  • Hirotaka Ieki,
  • Kaoru Ito,
  • Mike Saji,
  • Rei Kawakami,
  • Yuji Nagatomo,
  • Kaori Takada,
  • Toshiya Kariyasu,
  • Haruhiko Machida,
  • Satoshi Koyama,
  • Hiroki Yoshida,
  • Ryo Kurosawa,
  • Hiroshi Matsunaga,
  • Kazuo Miyazawa,
  • Kouichi Ozaki,
  • Yoshihiro Onouchi,
  • Susumu Katsushika,
  • Ryo Matsuoka,
  • Hiroki Shinohara,
  • Toshihiro Yamaguchi,
  • Satoshi Kodera,
  • Yasutomi Higashikuni,
  • Katsuhito Fujiu,
  • Hiroshi Akazawa,
  • Nobuo Iguchi,
  • Mitsuaki Isobe,
  • Tsutomu Yoshikawa,
  • Issei Komuro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00220-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Ieki et al. train a deep learning model to estimate patients’ age from chest X-ray images. X-ray age is found to be an indicator of poor prognosis in patients with heart failure and patients admitted to the intensive care unit with cardiovascular disease.