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Heart disease is a serious worldwide health issue because it claims the lives of many people who might have been treated if the disease had been identified earlier. The leading cause of death in the world is cardiovascular disease, usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Akua Sekyiwaa Osei-Nkwantabisa , Redeemer Ntumy

Machine learning (ML)-based analysis of electroencephalograms (EEGs) is playing an important role in advancing neurological care. However, the difficulties in automatically extracting useful metadata from clinical records hinder the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Samarth Rawal , Yogatheesan Varatharajah

Simultaneous electrocardiography (ECG) and phonocardiogram (PCG) provide a comprehensive, multimodal perspective on cardiac function by capturing the heart's electrical and mechanical activities, respectively. However, the distinct and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Sajjad Karimi , Amit J. Shah , Gari D. Clifford , Reza Sameni

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn increasing attention since the learned embeddings pretrained on large-scale datasets have shown powerful ability in various downstream applications. However, whether the learned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jielin Qiu , William Han , Jiacheng Zhu , Mengdi Xu , Michael Rosenberg , Emerson Liu , Douglas Weber , Ding Zhao

Echocardiogram video plays a crucial role in analysing cardiac function and diagnosing cardiac diseases. Current deep neural network methods primarily aim to enhance diagnosis accuracy by incorporating prior knowledge, such as segmenting…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Jiewen Yang , Yiqun Lin , Bin Pu , Jiarong Guo , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaomeng Li

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) have shown unique patterns to distinguish between different subjects and present important advantages compared to other biometric traits, such as difficulty to counterfeit, liveness detection, and ubiquity. Also,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Pietro Melzi , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

This study presents AI-HEART, a cloud-based information system for managing and analysing long-duration ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings and supporting clinician decision-making. The platform operationalises an end-to-end…

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

This work discusses the use of contrastive learning and deep learning for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases from electrocardiography (ECG) signals. While the ECG signals usually contain 12 leads (channels), many healthcare facilities and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Tue M. Cao , Nhat H. Tran , Phi Le Nguyen , Hieu Pham

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a significant marker of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular events. In this work we present a system for the automatic quantification of calcium score in ECG-triggered non-contrast enhanced cardiac computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 G. Santini , D. Della Latta , N. Martini , G. Valvano , A. Gori , A. Ripoli , C. L. Susini , L. Landini , D. Chiappino

Ensuring timely and accurate diagnosis of medical conditions is paramount for effective patient care. Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are fundamental for evaluating a patient's cardiac health and are readily available. Despite this, little…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death, and its adverse outcomes are urgent to predict. Yet ECG-based prognostic models underperform because deep learning requires large, labelled datasets, which are scarce in medicine.…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is the most commonly used non-invasive tool in the assessment of cardiovascular diseases. Segmentation of the ECG signal to locate its constitutive waves, in particular the R-peaks, is a key step in ECG…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Atiyeh Fotoohinasab , Toby Hocking , Fatemeh Afghah

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal analysis represents a pivotal technique in the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases. Although transformer-based models have made significant progress in ECG classification, they exhibit inefficiencies in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yupeng Qiang , Xunde Dong , Xiuling Liu , Yang Yang , Yihai Fang , Jianhong Dou

In the evolving landscape of ECG signal analysis, the challenge of limited transparency in machine learning models remains a significant barrier to their effective integration into clinical practice. This study addresses this issue by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Toygar Tanyel , Sezgin Atmaca , Kaan Gökçe , M. Yiğit Balık , Arda Güler , Emre Aslanger , İlkay Öksüz

This project addresses the need for efficient, real-time analysis of biomedical signals such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and electroencephalograms (EEG) for continuous health monitoring. Traditional methods rely on long-duration data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Jinhai Hu

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential non-invasive diagnostic tool for assessing cardiac conditions. Existing automatic interpretation methods suffer from limited generalizability, focusing on a narrow range of cardiac conditions, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ruoqi Liu , Yuelin Bai , Xiang Yue , Ping Zhang

Accurate prediction of cardiovascular diseases remains imperative for early diagnosis and intervention, necessitating robust and precise predictive models. Recently, there has been a growing interest in multi-modal learning for uncovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Francesco Girlanda , Olga Demler , Bjoern Menze , Neda Davoudi

Objective: Exploit accelerometry data for an automatic, reliable, and prompt detection of spontaneous circulation during cardiac arrest, as this is both vital for patient survival and practically challenging. Methods: We developed a machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Wolfgang J. Kern , Simon Orlob , Andreas Bohn , Wolfgang Toller , Jan Wnent , Jan-Thorsten Gräsner , Martin Holler

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia affecting a large number of people around the world. If left undetected, it will develop into chronic disability or even early mortality. However, patients who have this problem can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Dacheng Chen , Dan Li , Xiuqin Xu , Ruizhi Yang , See-Kiong Ng