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Electroencephalography (EEG) plays a crucial role in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neurological diagnostics, but its real-world deployment faces challenges due to noise artifacts, missing data, and high annotation costs. We introduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Meghna Roy Chowdhury , Yi Ding , Shreyas Sen

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is crucial for diagnosing heart disease, but most self-supervised learning methods treat ECG as a generic time series, overlooking physiologic semantics and rhythm-level structure. Existing contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xin Wang , Burcu Ozek , Aruna Mohan , Amirhossein Ravari , Or Zilbershot , Fatemeh Afghah

Electrocardiography (ECG) plays a central role in cardiovascular diagnostics, yet existing automated approaches often struggle to generalize across clinical tasks and offer limited support for open-ended reasoning. We present HeartLLM, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jinning Yang , Wenjie Sun , Wen Shi

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential and effective tool for diagnosing heart diseases. However, its effectiveness can be compromised by noise or unavailability of one or more leads of the standard 12-lead recordings, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Huynh Dang Nguyen , Trong-Thang Pham , Ngan Le , Van Nguyen

A language is made up of an infinite/finite number of sentences, which in turn is composed of a number of words. The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most popular noninvasive medical tool for studying heart function and diagnosing various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Prapti Ganguly , Wazib Ansar , Amlan Chakrabarti

Objectives: With the technological advancements in the field of tele-health monitoring, it is now possible to gather huge amounts of electro-physiological signals such as electrocardiogram (ECG). It is therefore necessary to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Abdolrahman Peimankar , Sadasivan Puthusserypady

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

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the development of multimodal medical AI. While models such as MedGemini achieve high accuracy on VQA tasks like USMLE MM, their performance on ECG based tasks remains limited,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Junichiro Takahashi , Masataka Sato , Satoshi Kodeta , Norihiko Takeda

Recent advances have increasingly applied large language models (LLMs) to electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation, giving rise to Electrocardiogram-Language Models (ELMs). Conditioned on an ECG and a textual query, an ELM autoregressively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 William Han , Chaojing Duan , Zhepeng Cen , Yihang Yao , Xiaoyu Song , Atharva Mhaskar , Dylan Leong , Michael A. Rosenberg , Emerson Liu , Ding Zhao

Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring is one of the most powerful technique of cardiovascular disease (CVD) early identification, and the introduction of intelligent wearable ECG devices has enabled daily monitoring. However, due to the need…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Hongxiang Gao , Xingyao Wang , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Jianqing Li , Chengyu Liu

Electrocardiogram (ECG) synthesis is the area of research focused on generating realistic synthetic ECG signals for medical use without concerns over annotation costs or clinical data privacy restrictions. Traditional ECG generation models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Hyunseung Chung , Jiho Kim , Joon-myoung Kwon , Ki-Hyun Jeon , Min Sung Lee , Edward Choi

Heart disease remains a significant threat to human health. As a non-invasive diagnostic tool, the electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most widely used methods for cardiac screening. However, the scarcity of high-quality ECG data, driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yongfan Lai , Jiabo Chen , Deyun Zhang , Yue Wang , Shijia Geng , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used tool for assessing cardiac function due to its low cost and accessibility. Emergent research shows that ECGs can help make predictions on key outcomes traditionally derived from more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuan Gao , Sangwook Kim , Chris McIntosh

Electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia classification remains challenging due to signal variability, noise, limited labeled data, and the difficulty in achieving both accuracy and efficiency in models. While self-supervised learning reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mahsa Gazeran , Sayvan Soleymanbaigi , Fatemeh Daneshfar , Amjad Seyedi , Fardin Akhlaghian Tab

Electroencephalography (EEG) is an objective tool for emotion recognition and shows promising performance. However, the label scarcity problem is a main challenge in this field, which limits the wide application of EEG-based emotion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Rushuang Zhou , Weishan Ye , Zhiguo Zhang , Yanyang Luo , Li Zhang , Linling Li , Gan Huang , Yining Dong , Yuan-Ting Zhang , Zhen Liang

Integrating physiological signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG), with other data such as interview audio, may offer valuable multimodal insights into psychological states or neurological disorders. Recent advancements with Large…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yongquan Hu , Shuning Zhang , Ting Dang , Hong Jia , Flora D. Salim , Wen Hu , Aaron J. Quigley

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to leverage limited labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data to improve model generalization performance. Recent approaches achieve impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Bo Cheng , Jueqing Lu , Yuan Tian , Haifeng Zhao , Yi Chang , Lan Du

Decoding natural language from brain activity using non-invasive electroencephalography (EEG) remains a significant challenge in neuroscience and machine learning, particularly for open-vocabulary scenarios where traditional methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohamed Masry , Mohamed Amen , Mohamed Elzyat , Mohamed Hamed , Norhan Magdy , Maram Khaled

The adoption of deep learning-based healthcare decision support systems such as the detection of irregular cardiac rhythm is hindered by challenges such as lack of access to quality data and the high costs associated with the collection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sagnik Dakshit , Barbara Mukami Maweu , Sristi Dakshit , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

Heart disease is the number one killer, and ECGs can assist in the early diagnosis and prevention of deadly outcomes. Accurate ECG interpretation is critical in detecting heart diseases; however, they are often misinterpreted due to a lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dharma KC , Chicheng Zhang , Chris Gniady , Parth Sandeep Agarwal , Sushil Sharma