Cardiac age detected by machine learning applied to the surface ECG of healthy subjects: Creation of a benchmark.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to develop a neural network to characterize the effect of aging on the ECG in healthy volunteers. Moreover, the impact of the various ECG features on aging was evaluated.Methods& Results: A total of 6228 healthy subjects without structural heart disease we...

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Published in:Journal of Electrocardiology Vol. 72; pp. 49 - 56
Main Authors: van der Wall, Hein E.C., Hassing, Gert-Jan, Doll, Robert-Jan, van Westen, Gerard J.P., Cohen, Adam F., Selder, Jasper L., Kemme, Michiel, Burggraaf, Jacobus, Gal, Pim
Format: research Journal Article
Published: W B Saunders May2022
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          van der Wall, Hein E.C.
          Hassing, Gert-Jan
          Doll, Robert-Jan
          van Westen, Gerard J.P.
          Cohen, Adam F.
          Selder, Jasper L.
          Kemme, Michiel
          Burggraaf, Jacobus
          Gal, Pim
        affil: Centre for Human Drug Research, The Netherlands
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          Electrocardiography Methods
          Benchmarking
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Male
          Aged
          Adolescence
          Female
          Child, Preschool
          Young Adult
          Infant
          Research Subjects
          Child
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Aged: 65+ years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Child: 6-12 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Objective: The aim of the present study was to develop a neural network to characterize the effect of aging on the ECG in healthy volunteers. Moreover, the impact of the various ECG features on aging was evaluated.Methods& Results: A total of 6228 healthy subjects without structural heart disease were included in this study. A neural network regression model was created to predict age of the subjects based on their ECG; 577 parameters derived from a 12‑lead ECG of each subject were used to develop and validate the neural network; A tenfold cross-validation was performed, using 118 subjects for validation each fold. Using SHapley Additive exPlanations values the impact of the individual features on the prediction of age was determined. Of 6228 subjects tested, 1808 (29%) were females and mean age was 34 years, range 18-75 years. Physiologic age was estimated as a continuous variable with an average error of 6.9 ± 5.6 years (R2 = 0.72 ± 0.04). The correlation was slightly stronger for men (R2 = 0.74) than for women (R2 = 0.66). The most important features on the prediction of physiologic age were T wave morphology indices in leads V4 and V5, and P wave amplitude in leads AVR and II.Conclusion: The application of machine learning to the ECG using a neural network regression model, allows accurate estimation of physiologic cardiac age. This technique could be used to pick up subtle age-related cardiac changes, but also estimate the reversing of these age-associated effects by administered treatments.
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