Imperial College London (Sau, Ng et al.)
Training code and model weights not public. Contact creators for more information.
Multi-outcome AI-ECG risk-estimation platform that turns a single 12-lead ECG into a patient-specific survival curve, using a residual convolutional neural network trained with a discrete-time survival loss to predict not just risk but time-to-event. Beyond all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, separately fine-tuned heads predict future ventricular arrhythmia, complete heart block, atrial fibrillation, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, heart failure, and (in follow-up work) hypertension -- all from a single resting ECG, including in ECGs a cardiologist would read as normal. Derived on 1.16 million ECGs from 189,539 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center patients and externally validated across transnational cohorts in the USA, Brazil (CODE), and the UK (UK Biobank). A variational autoencoder and genome/phenome-wide association analyses were used to show the model's predictions track biologically plausible features (QRS morphology, LV structure/function, and loci linked to cardiac structure, QT interval, and biological aging). NHS trials of AIRE were planned for late 2025. No public code or model weights have been released.
Architecture
CNN (1D)
Residual 1D convolutional neural network with a discrete-time survival loss, producing a subject-specific survival curve from a single 12-lead ECG; separate fine-tuned prediction heads per outcome
Added to catalog
2026-08-10
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center AIRE Derivation Cohort
1,163,401 12-lead ECGs from 189,539 secondary-care patients, used to derive and internally validate the AIRE risk-estimation platform.
CODE (Clinical Outcomes in Digital Electrocardiology, full cohort)
Full restricted-access CODE cohort of Brazilian primary-care 12-lead ECGs, distinct from the public CODE-15% subsample already in this catalog; used for xECG pretraining.
Volunteer, population-based cohort from the UK Biobank prospective study, used as one of AIRE's external transnational validation cohorts (distinct from the separate UK Biobank cardiac MRI sub-cohort already catalogued).
Patient-specific survival curve predicting all-cause mortality and time-to-mortality from a single 12-lead ECG
Patient-specific survival curve predicting cardiovascular death
Future ventricular arrhythmia risk prediction
Future complete heart block (CHB) risk prediction
Future atrial fibrillation risk prediction
Future atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk prediction
Future heart failure risk prediction