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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

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…

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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

Foundation models are reshaping medical imaging, yet their application in echocardiography remains limited, hindered by a heavy reliance on private datasets that prevent reproducible comparison. Echocardiography poses unique challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Darya Taratynova , Ahmed Aly , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used diagnostic tool for detecting heart conditions. Rare cardiac diseases may be underdiagnosed using traditional ECG analysis, considering that no training dataset can exhaust all possible cardiac…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Aofan Jiang , Chaoqin Huang , Qing Cao , Shuang Wu , Zi Zeng , Kang Chen , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

ECG-Language Models (ELMs) extend recent progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to automated ECG interpretation. However, most ELMs follow Vision-Language Model (VLM) designs and depend on pretrained ECG encoders, adding…

Foundation models (FMs) promise to extract unified representations that generalize across downstream tasks. They have emerged across fields, including electroencephalography (EEG), but it is less clear how effective they are in this…

Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is a life-threatening cardiovascular condition where early and accurate diagnosis is critical for effective treatment and improved patient outcomes. This study explores the use of ECG foundation models,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Zeyuan Meng , Lovely Yeswanth Panchumarthi , Saurabh Kataria , Alex Fedorov , Jessica Zègre-Hemsey , Xiao Hu , Ran Xiao

Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are pivotal in providing insights into spontaneous brain activity, highlighting their significant importance in neuroscience research. However, the exploration of versatile EEG models is constrained by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Tongtian Yue , Xuange Gao , Shuning Xue , Yepeng Tang , Longteng Guo , Jie Jiang , Jing Liu

Electrocardiography (ECG) is a low-cost, widely used modality for diagnosing electrical abnormalities like atrial fibrillation by capturing the heart's electrical activity. However, it cannot directly measure cardiac morphological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Michelle Espranita Liman , Özgün Turgut , Alexander Müller , Eimo Martens , Daniel Rueckert , Philip Müller

Electrocardiography (ECG) is central to cardiovascular care, but conventional AI models are often restricted to common arrhythmias and may generalize poorly across populations or clinically subtle diseases. We developed ECG Contrastive…

EEG foundation models are typically pretrained on narrow-source clinical archives and evaluated on benchmarks from the same ecosystem, leaving unclear whether representations encode neural physiology or recording-distribution artifacts. We…

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a highly effective approach in the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. It is also applicable to brain signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) data, given the abundance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-22 Yuqi Chen , Kan Ren , Kaitao Song , Yansen Wang , Yifan Wang , Dongsheng Li , Lili Qiu

Electroencephalography (EEG) reflects the brain's functional state, making it a crucial tool for diverse detection applications like seizure detection and sleep stage classification. While deep learning-based approaches have recently shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kerui Wu , Ziyue Zhao , Bülent Yener

Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation requires specialized expertise, often involving synthesizing insights from ECG signals with complex clinical queries posed in natural language. The scarcity of labeled ECG data coupled with the diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jialu Tang , Tong Xia , Yuan Lu , Cecilia Mascolo , Aaqib Saeed

EEG foundation models (EEG-FMs) have been evaluated predominantly on clean, in-distribution accuracy, leaving their robustness, interpretability and representational quality largely unexamined. This study addresses these gaps by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Urban Širca , Maryam Alimardani , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Konstantinos Barmpas

Supervised deep learning models for automated CTG analysis are typically constrained by narrowly curated labelled datasets and limited patient cohorts, leaving substantial volumes of physiologically informative clinical recordings untapped.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sheng Wong , Ravi Shankar , Beth Albert , Hao Fei , Lin Li , Imane Ben M'Barek , Manu Vatish , Gabriel Davis Jones

Foundation models hold promise for transforming AI in healthcare by providing modular components that are easily adaptable to downstream healthcare tasks, making AI development more scalable and cost-effective. Structured EHR foundation…

Accurately monitoring cognitive load in real time is critical for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that adapt to user engagement and support personalized learning. Electroencephalography (EEG) offers a non-invasive, cost-effective modality…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Deeksha M. Shama , Dimitra Emmanouilidou , Ivan J. Tashev

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal exhibits inherent uniqueness, making it a promising biometric modality for identity authentication. As a result, ECG authentication has gained increasing attention in recent years. However, most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mingyu Dong , Zhidong Zhao , Hao Wang , Yefei Zhang , Yanjun Deng