Objectives: Chest X-rays (CXRs) convey much illegible physiological information that deep learning model (DLM) has been reported interpreting successfully. Since the electrocardiogram age established by DLM was revealed as a heart biological marker, we hypothesize that CXR age has similar potential to describe the heart and lung states. Therefore, we developed a DLM to predict sex and age through CXR and analyzed its relation with future cardiovascular diseases (CVD).
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