Uncertainty-Aware Remaining Lifespan Prediction from Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13430v2
• Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:19:47 GMT
• Title: Uncertainty-Aware Remaining Lifespan Prediction from Images
• Authors: Tristan Kenneweg, Philip Kenneweg, Barbara Hammer,
• Abstract summary: We present a method that leverages pretrained vision transformer foundation models to estimate remaining lifespan from facial and whole-body images.<n>Our approach achieves state-of-the-art mean absolute error (MAE) of 7.48 years on an established dataset, and further improves to 4.79 and 5.07 years MAE on two new, higher-quality datasets.<n>While not intended for clinical deployment, these results highlight the potential of extracting medically relevant signals from images.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Predicting mortality-related outcomes from images offers the prospect of accessible, noninvasive, and scalable health screening. We present a method that leverages pretrained vision transformer foundation models to estimate remaining lifespan from facial and whole-body images, alongside robust uncertainty quantification. We show that predictive uncertainty varies systematically with the true remaining lifespan, and that this uncertainty can be effectively modeled by learning a Gaussian distribution for each sample. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art mean absolute error (MAE) of 7.48 years on an established dataset, and further improves to 4.79 and 5.07 years MAE on two new, higher-quality datasets curated and published in this work. Importantly, our models provide well-calibrated uncertainty estimates, as demonstrated by a bucketed expected calibration error of 0.62 years. While not intended for clinical deployment, these results highlight the potential of extracting medically relevant signals from images. We make all code and datasets available to facilitate further research.

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