Cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality risk prediction from abdominal CT using deep learning

摘要

2021 SEP 17 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract, our journalists obtained the following quote sourced from medrxiv.org: "Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of mortality worldwide. Risk prediction can help incentivize lifestyle changes and inform targeted preventative treatment. "In this work we explore utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict cardiovascular disease risk from abdominal CT scans taken for routine CT colonography in otherwise healthy patients aged 50-65. "We find that adding a variational autoencoder (VAE) to the CNN classifier improves its accuracy for five year survival prediction (AUC 0.787 vs. 0.768).