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AI guesses a person's biological age and sex using an ECG

Still not sure how the artificial intelligence does it though

28-Aug-2019

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A neural network can guess a person's biological age and sex by analysing their ECG.

90 per cent accuracy for age and 72 per cent accuracy for sex.

Gives the biological age after taking existing comorbidities in to account.

Used ECG data from 774,783 adult patients for this study.

Research by Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, published in the Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology journal.

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Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Scientific Journal providing information about Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

Mayo Clinic

Non-profit American academic medical center focused on health care, education, and research

Suraj Kapa

Cardiac electrophysiologist at Mayo Clinic and Director of Augmented and Virtual Reality Innovation.

Topics mentioned on this page:
Biological Age, AI in Healthcare