Research Paper Volume 10, Issue 11 pp 3249—3259
PhotoAgeClock: deep learning algorithms for development of non-invasive visual biomarkers of aging
- 1 HautAI OU, Tallinn, Estonia
- 2 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- 3 Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- 4 Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
- 5 Insilico Medicine, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
- 6 The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA
- 7 The Biogerontology Research Foundation, London, UK
- 8 Beiersdorf AG, Hamburg, Germany
Received: August 30, 2018 Accepted: October 27, 2018 Published: November 9, 2018
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.101629How to Cite
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Abstract
Aging biomarkers are the qualitative and quantitative indicators of the aging processes of the human body. Estimation of biological age is important for assessing the physiological state of an organism. The advent of machine learning lead to the development of the many age predictors commonly referred to as the “aging clocks” varying in biological relevance, ease of use, cost, actionability, interpretability, and applications. Here we present and investigate a novel non-invasive class of visual photographic biomarkers of aging. We developed a simple and accurate predictor of chronological age using just the anonymized images of eye corners called the PhotoAgeClock. Deep neural networks were trained on 8414 anonymized high-resolution images of eye corners labeled with the correct chronological age. For people within the age range of 20 to 80 in a specific population, the model was able to achieve a mean absolute error of 2.3 years and 95% Pearson and Spearman correlation.
Abbreviations
MAE: Mean absolute error; DNN: Deep convolution neural network; CNN: Convolution neural network; RoR: Residual networks of residual networks; GANs: Generative adversarial networks.