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Electrocardiogram~(ECG), a key bioelectrical time-series signal, is crucial for assessing cardiac health and diagnosing various diseases. Given its time-series format, ECG data is often incorporated into pre-training datasets for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Zhijiang Tang , Jiaxin Qi , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

Deep learning-based electrocardiogram (ECG) classification has shown impressive performance but clinical adoption has been slowed by the lack of transparent and faithful explanations. Post hoc methods such as saliency maps may fail to…

Interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs) and generating comprehensive reports remain challenging tasks in cardiology, often requiring specialized expertise and significant time investment. To address these critical issues, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jialu Tang , Tong Xia , Yuan Lu , Cecilia Mascolo , Aaqib Saeed

The proposed system consists of a two-stage cascade. The first stage performs a rough heartbeat detection while the second stage refines the previous one, improving the temporal localization and also classifying the heartbeats into types S1…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 J. Torre-Cruz , D. Martinez-Munoz , N. Ruiz-Reyes , A. J. Munoz-Montoro , M. Puentes-Chiachio , F. J. Canadas-Quesada

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a key diagnostic tool in cardiovascular health. Single-lead ECG recording is integrated into both clinical-grade and consumer wearables. While self-supervised pretraining of foundation models on unlabeled ECGs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuxuan Shu , Peter H. Charlton , Fahim Kawsar , Jussi Hernesniemi , Mohammad Malekzadeh

Automated electrocardiogram (ECG) classification is essential for early detection of cardiovascular diseases. While recent approaches have increasingly relied on deep neural networks with complex architectures, we demonstrate that careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Naqcho Ali Mehdi , Amir Ali

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, profiling the electrical activities of the heart, are used for a plethora of diagnostic applications. However, ECG systems require multiple leads or channels of signals to capture the complete view of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Nabil Ibtehaz , Masood Mortazavi

This paper introduces TRACE-GPT, which stands for Time-seRies Anomaly-detection with Convolutional Embedding and Generative Pre-trained Transformers. TRACE-GPT is designed to pre-train univariate time-series sensor data and detect faults on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sewoong Lee , JinKyou Choi , Min Su Kim

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a valuable signal used to assess various aspects of heart health, such as heart rate and rhythm. It plays a crucial role in identifying cardiac conditions and detecting anomalies in ECG data. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Nhat-Tan Bui , Dinh-Hieu Hoang , Thinh Phan , Minh-Triet Tran , Brijesh Patel , Donald Adjeroh , Ngan Le

Deep learning models need a sufficient amount of data in order to be able to find the hidden patterns in it. It is the purpose of generative modeling to learn the data distribution, thus allowing us to sample more data and augment the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 José Fernando Núñez , Jamie Arjona , Javier Béjar

Processing temporal sequences is central to a variety of applications in health care, and in particular multi-channel Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a highly prevalent diagnostic modality that relies on robust sequence modeling. While Recurrent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-17 Deepta Rajan , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan

The electrocardiogram (ECG) records electrical signals in a non-invasive way to observe the condition of the heart, typically looking at the heart from 12 different directions. Several types of the cardiac disease are diagnosed by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yong-Yeon Jo , Young Sang Choi , Jong-Hwan Jang , Joon-Myoung Kwon

Automatic diagnosis of multiple cardiac abnormalities from reduced-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) data is challenging. One of the reasons for this is the difficulty of defining labels from standard 12-lead data. Reduced-lead ECG data usually…

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a quasi-periodic, multi-channel signal with diagnostic content spanning timescales from millisecond waveform morphology to multi-second rhythm dynamics. Existing ECG representation learning relies on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Lei Xu , Fahad Sohrab , Mehmet Yamac , Merja Heinaniemi , Moncef Gabbouj

This paper proposes a low-cost and highly accurate ECG-monitoring system intended for personalized early arrhythmia detection for wearable mobile sensors. Earlier supervised approaches for personalized ECG monitoring require both abnormal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mehmet Yamaç , Mert Duman , İlke Adalıoğlu , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

A language is constructed of a finite/infinite set of sentences composing of words. Similar to natural languages, Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal, the most common noninvasive tool to study the functionality of the heart and diagnose several…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-17 Sajad Mousavi , Fatemeh Afghah , Fatemeh Khadem , U. Rajendra Acharya

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most commonly used non-invasive, convenient medical monitoring tools that assist in the clinical diagnosis of heart diseases. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques, particularly self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jun Li , Che Liu , Sibo Cheng , Rossella Arcucci , Shenda Hong

In Romania, cardiovascular problems are the leading cause of death, accounting for nearly one-third of annual fatalities. The severity of this situation calls for innovative diagnosis method for cardiovascular diseases. This article aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Andrei Apostol , Maria Nutu

We present an integrated approach by combining analog computing and deep learning for electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia classification. We propose EKGNet, a hardware-efficient and fully analog arrhythmia classification architecture that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Benyamin Haghi , Lin Ma , Sahin Lale , Anima Anandkumar , Azita Emami

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a fundamental tool in cardiovascular diagnostics due to its powerful and non-invasive nature. One of the most critical usages is to determine whether more detailed examinations are necessary, with users…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junichiro Takahashi , JingChuan Guan , Masataka Sato , Kaito Baba , Kazuto Haruguchi , Daichi Nagashima , Satoshi Kodera , Norihiko Takeda