Abstract: Method, system and uses for determining abdominal aortic calcification involves determining abdominal aortic calcification from a lateral lumbar image and diagnostic/prognostic use thereof. A method of determining abdominal aortic calcification comprises receiving a lateral lumbar image, determining a score representing abdominal aortic calcification from the image using one or more processors, wherein the determining step comprises, encoding the image to identify visual features and decoding the visual features to compute a plurality of calcification scores, each for a segment of the abdominal aorta.