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An arrhythmia, also known as a dysrhythmia, refers to an irregular heartbeat. There are various types of arrhythmias that can originate from different areas of the heart, resulting in either a rapid, slow, or irregular heartbeat. An…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Taymaz Akan , Sait Alp , Mohammad Alfrad Nobel Bhuiyan

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

Obtaining labelled ECG data for developing supervised models is challenging. Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a promising pretraining approach that enables effective transfer learning with limited labelled data. However, existing CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Muhammad Ilham Rizqyawan , Peter Macfarlane , Stathis Hadjidemetriou , Fani Deligianni

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) offers detailed evaluation of cardiac structure and function, but its limited accessibility restricts use to selected patient populations. In contrast, the electrocardiogram (ECG) is ubiquitous and…

Recent advances in electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models, which capture transferable EEG representations, have greatly accelerated the development of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). However, existing approaches still struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Muyun Jiang , Shuailei Zhang , Zhenjie Yang , Mengjun Wu , Weibang Jiang , Zhiwei Guo , Wei Zhang , Rui Liu , Shangen Zhang , Yong Li , Yi Ding , Cuntai Guan

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential signal in monitoring human heart activities. Researchers have achieved promising results in leveraging ECGs in clinical applications with deep learning models. However, the mainstream deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Han Yu , Huiyuan Yang , Akane Sano

Ubiquitous sensing from wearable devices in the wild holds promise for enhancing human well-being, from diagnosing clinical conditions and measuring stress to building adaptive health promoting scaffolds. But the large volumes of data…

Electrocardiography is a very common, non-invasive diagnostic procedure and its interpretation is increasingly supported by automatic interpretation algorithms. The progress in the field of automatic ECG interpretation has up to now been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Nils Strodthoff , Patrick Wagner , Tobias Schaeffter , Wojciech Samek

Analysing electrocardiograms (ECGs) is an inexpensive and non-invasive, yet powerful way to diagnose heart disease. ECG studies using Machine Learning to automatically detect abnormal heartbeats so far depend on large, manually annotated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Mononito Goswami , Benedikt Boecking , Artur Dubrawski

The utilization of deep learning on electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis has brought the advanced accuracy and efficiency of cardiac healthcare diagnostics. By leveraging the capabilities of deep learning in semantic understanding, especially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Akane Sano

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

Electrocardiogram (ECG) has been widely used for emotion recognition. This paper presents a deep neural network based on convolutional layers and a transformer mechanism to detect stress using ECG signals. We perform leave-one-subject-out…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Behnam Behinaein , Anubhav Bhatti , Dirk Rodenburg , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

Electrocardiography (ECG) serves as an indispensable diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain unreliable for ECG interpretation, often producing plausible but clinically incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiarui Jin , Haoyu Wang , Xingliang Wu , Xiaocheng Fang , Xiang Lan , Zihan Wang , Deyun Zhang , Bo Liu , Yingying Zhang , Xian Wu , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

Current foundation models for electroencephalography (EEG) rely on architectures adapted from computer vision or natural language processing, typically treating neural signals as pixel grids or token sequences. This approach overlooks that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Zhisheng Chen , Yingwei Zhang , Qizhen Lan , Tianyu Liu , Huacan Wang , Yi Ding , Ziyu Jia , Ronghao Chen , Kun Wang , Xinliang Zhou

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…

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive technique for recording brain activity, widely used in brain-computer interfaces, clinic, and healthcare. Traditional EEG deep models typically focus on specific dataset and task, limiting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Ang Li , Zikai Wang , Liuyin Yang , Zhenyu Wang , Tianheng Xu , Honglin Hu , Marc M. Van Hulle

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a simple non-invasive measure to identify heart-related issues such as irregular heartbeats known as arrhythmias. While artificial intelligence and machine learning is being utilized in a wide range of healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Minh Cao , Tianqi Zhao , Yanxun Li , Wenhao Zhang , Peyman Benharash , Ramin Ramezani

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

Objective: Surface electromyography (EMG) is a non-invasive sensing modality widely used in biomechanics, rehabilitation, prosthetic control, and human-machine interfaces. Despite decades of use, achieving robust generalization across…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Matteo Fasulo , Giusy Spacone , Thorir Mar Ingolfsson , Yawei Li , Luca Benini , Andrea Cossettini

Blood pressure (BP) is a key indicator of cardiovascular health. As hypertension remains a global cause of morbidity and mortality, accurate, continuous, and non-invasive BP monitoring is therefore of paramount importance.…

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