Uppsala University / UFMG (Lima et al.)
1D residual neural network that predicts a patient's age directly from a 12-lead ECG; the gap between this predicted 'ECG age' and true chronological age is used as a biomarker of cardiovascular risk and mortality. Trained on the CODE-15% Brazilian ECG dataset, with the original R² of 0.71 later reproduced (R² = 0.70) in an independent German validation cohort. Developed by researchers at Uppsala University and UFMG.
Architecture
CNN (1D)
1D residual neural network (ResNet), PyTorch implementation, no output sigmoid (regression head)
Framework
PyTorch
Added to catalog
2026-07-10
CC BY 4.0
License for model weights only. Associated code may be licensed seperately, check code source for specific terms.
Publicly available 15% subset of the CODE (Clinical Outcomes in Digital Electrocardiology) dataset from the Telehealth Network of Minas Gerais; full CODE dataset (>2 million exams) is request-only.
ECG-predicted age