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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality globally, necessitating advancements in diagnostic techniques. This study explores the application of wavelet transformation for classifying electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Morteza Maleki , Foad Haeri

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated significant potential in ECG analysis and cardiovascular disease assessment. Recently, foundation models have played a remarkable role in advancing medical AI. The development of an ECG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jun Li , Aaron Aguirre , Junior Moura , Che Liu , Lanhai Zhong , Chenxi Sun , Gari Clifford , Brandon Westover , Shenda Hong

Traditional echocardiographic parameters such as ejection fraction (EF) and global longitudinal strain (GLS) have limitations in the early detection of cardiac dysfunction. EF often remains normal despite underlying pathology, and GLS is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Beka Begiashvili , Carlos J. Fernandez-Candel , Matías Pérez Paredes

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is widely used in healthcare applications, such as arrhythmia detection and sleep monitoring, making accurate ECG analysis critically essential. Traditional deep learning models for ECG are task-specific, with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Yu Han , Vittorio Murino , Xiaofeng Liu , Xiang Zhang , Cheng Ding

An electrocardiogram (EKG) is a common, non-invasive test that measures the electrical activity of a patient's heart. EKGs contain useful diagnostic information about patient health that may be absent from other electronic health record…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Andrew C. Miller , Ziad Obermeyer , David M. Blei , John P. Cunningham , Sendhil Mullainathan

Foundation models for echocardiography often struggle to disentangle anatomical signal from the stochastic speckle and acquisition artifacts inherent to ultrasound. We present EchoJEPA, a foundation model trained on 18 million…

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a cost-effective, highly accessible and widely employed diagnostic tool. With the advent of Foundation Models (FMs), the field of AI-assisted ECG interpretation has begun to evolve, as they enable model reuse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Francesca Filice , Edoardo De Rose , Simone Bartucci , Francesco Calimeri , Simona Perri

Echocardiography is the only technique capable of real-time imaging of the heart and is vital for diagnosing the majority of cardiac diseases. However, there is a severe shortage of experienced cardiac sonographers, due to the heart's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Haojun Jiang , Zhenguo Sun , Ning Jia , Meng Li , Yu Sun , Shaqi Luo , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

The electrocardiogram or ECG has been in use for over 100 years and remains the most widely performed diagnostic test to characterize cardiac structure and electrical activity. We hypothesized that parallel advances in computing power,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Geoffrey H. Tison , Jeffrey Zhang , Francesca N. Delling , Rahul C. Deo

Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of mortality in the world that occurs due to a blockage of the coronary arteries feeding the myocardium. An early diagnosis of MI and its localization can mitigate the extent of myocardial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Aysen Degerli , Serkan Kiranyaz , Tahir Hamid , Rashid Mazhar , Moncef Gabbouj

Cardiac ultrasound imaging is used to diagnose various heart diseases. Common analysis pipelines involve manual processing of the video frames by expert clinicians. This suffers from intra- and inter-observer variability. We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Hadrien Reynaud , Athanasios Vlontzos , Benjamin Hou , Arian Beqiri , Paul Leeson , Bernhard Kainz

Echocardiography (echo) is an ultrasound imaging modality that is widely used for various cardiovascular diagnosis tasks. Due to inter-observer variability in echo-based diagnosis, which arises from the variability in echo image acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Masoud Mokhtari , Neda Ahmadi , Teresa S. M. Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi , Renjie Liao

Myocardial infarction is the leading cause of death worldwide. In this paper, we design domain-inspired neural network models to detect myocardial infarction. First, we study the contribution of various leads. This systematic analysis,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Arjun Gupta , E. A. Huerta , Zhizhen Zhao , Issam Moussa

Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is a key indicator of cardiac function and plays a central role in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Echocardiography, as a readily accessible and non-invasive imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shravan Saranyan , Pramit Saha

Electrocardiogram (ECG), a non-invasive and affordable tool for cardiac monitoring, is highly sensitive in detecting acute heart attacks. However, due to the lengthy nature of ECG recordings, numerous machine learning methods have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Yue Wang , Xu Cao , Yaojun Hu , Haochao Ying , Hongxia Xu , Ruijia Wu , James Matthew Rehg , Jimeng Sun , Jian Wu , Jintai Chen

Electrocardiogram data, one of the most widely available biosignal data, has become increasingly valuable with the emergence of deep learning methods, providing novel insights into cardiovascular diseases and broader health conditions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Bickmann , Lucas Plagwitz , Antonius Büscher , Lars Eckardt , Julian Varghese

Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death according to WHO. Phonocardiography (PCG) is a costeffective, non-invasive method suitable for heart monitoring. The main aim of this work is to classify heart sounds into…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Reza Yousefi Mashhoor , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most convenient and non-invasive tools for monitoring peoples' heart condition, which can use for diagnosing a wide range of heart diseases, including Cardiac Arrhythmia, Acute Coronary Syndrome, et al.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Shenda Hong , Zhaoji Fu , Rongbo Zhou , Jie Yu , Yongkui Li , Kai Wang , Guanlin Cheng

In primary diagnosis and analysis of heart defects, an ECG signal plays a significant role. This paper presents a model for the prediction of ventricular tachycardia arrhythmia using noise filtering, a unique set of ECG features, and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Pampa Howladar , Manodipan Sahoo