An AI Looked at 420,000 Routine Chest X-Rays and Found a New Way to Predict Who Dies Early
A deep learning model called AgeNet, trained on over 420,000 chest X-rays from Korean adults and tracked for a median of 8.5 years, found that patients whose AI-estimated 'radiographic age' outpaced their real age had up to 52% higher mortality risk, per a study published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.