Abstract 4370368: AI-Predicted Osteoporosis from Preprocedural CT Scans Predicts Mortality After TAVR: A Multicenter Study
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Abstract
Background: Osteoporosis and sarcopenia are common but underrecognized contributors to frailty in older adults undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Standard risk scores omit musculoskeletal parameters despite their known association with adverse outcomes. Objective: To evaluate whether osteoporosis predicted by an AI-based model using routine pre-TAVR CT scans is associated with long-term mortality in a large, multicenter TAVR cohort. Methods: We developed a radiomics-based machine learning model trained on 252 patients with paired CT and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans from Jewish General Hospital and McGill University Health Centre (Canada). The model estimated lumbar bone mineral density (BMD) and T-scores and was applied to preprocedural contrast-enhanced CT scans routinely acquired for TAVR planning in 906 patients across five institutions in the US, Canada, and Ireland. Osteoporosis was defined as AI-predicted T-score ≤ –2.5. Skeletal muscle density was extracted from the same CTs. Associations with all-cause mortality were assessed using Cox regression. Results: The radiomics-based regression model demonstrated strong agreement with DXA-derived BMD, achieving a mean absolute error of 0.06, R 2 of 0.87, and correlation coefficient of 0.93. The corresponding classification model predicting WHO T-score categories (normal, osteopenia, osteoporosis) achieved an overall accuracy of 0.82. Applied to the external TAVR cohort (n=906), the model identified 3.0% (27/906) of patients as osteoporotic (T-score ≤ –2.5). AI-defined osteoporosis was significantly associated with increased long-term mortality (HR 2.27; 95% CI: 1.23–4.19; p=0.009). Higher skeletal muscle density was also associated with reduced mortality (HR per 1 HU increase: 0.987; p=0.041). Patients classified as osteoporotic had lower muscle volume and higher frailty scores. Kaplan–Meier survival analysis further demonstrated that osteoporotic patients had significantly lower long-term survival. Although only 3% of the cohort had osteoporosis, survival curves diverged early and remained separated, suggesting this subgroup represents a clinically vulnerable population. Conclusion: An automated AI-based model accurately estimates BMD from routine pre-TAVR imaging and identifies patients at increased mortality risk. Opportunistic CT-based assessment of bone and muscle health may enhance frailty screening and risk stratification in older adults undergoing TAVR.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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