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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…

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Echocardiography interpretation requires integrating multi-view temporal evidence with quantitative measurements and guideline-grounded reasoning, yet existing foundation-model pipelines largely solve isolated subtasks and fail when tool…

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Foundation models are becoming increasingly effective in the medical domain, offering pre-trained models on large datasets that can be readily adapted for downstream tasks. Despite progress, fetal ultrasound images remain a challenging…

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

Echocardiography is the most widely used imaging to monitor cardiac functions, serving as the first line in early detection of myocardial ischemia and infarction. However, echocardiography often suffers from several artifacts including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Ilke Adalioglu , Serkan Kiranyaz , Mete Ahishali , Aysen Degerli , Tahir Hamid , Rahmat Ghaffar , Ridha Hamila , Moncef Gabbouj

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis plays a vital role in the early detection, monitoring, and management of various cardiovascular conditions. While existing models have achieved notable success in ECG interpretation, they fail to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yuhao Xu , Xiaoda Wang , Jiaying Lu , Sirui Ding , Defu Cao , Huaxiu Yao , Yan Liu , Xiao Hu , Carl Yang

Echocardiography is an essential medical technique for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, but its high operational complexity has led to a shortage of trained professionals. To address this issue, we introduce a novel probe movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Haojun Jiang , Teng Wang , Zhenguo Sun , Yulin Wang , Yang Yue , Yu Sun , Ning Jia , Meng Li , Shaqi Luo , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Early detection of eye diseases like glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy is crucial for preventing vision loss. While artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models hold significant promise for addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Danli Shi , Weiyi Zhang , Jiancheng Yang , Siyu Huang , Xiaolan Chen , Mayinuer Yusufu , Kai Jin , Shan Lin , Shunming Liu , Qing Zhang , Mingguang He

Echocardiography segmentation for cardiac analysis is time-consuming and resource-intensive due to the variability in image quality and the necessity to process scans from various standard views. While current automated segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Sekeun Kim , Hui Ren , Peng Guo , Abder-Rahman Ali , Patrick Zhang , Kyungsang Kim , Xiang Li , Quanzheng Li

Echocardiography (ECHO) is essential for cardiac assessments, but its video quality and interpretation heavily relies on manual expertise, leading to inconsistent results from clinical and portable devices. ECHO video generation offers a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Yiwei Li , Sekeun Kim , Zihao Wu , Hanqi Jiang , Yi Pan , Pengfei Jin , Sifan Song , Yucheng Shi , Tianming Liu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li

In clinical practice of echocardiography examinations, multiple planes containing the heart structures of different view are usually required in screening, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease. AI models for echocardiography have to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiongtong Hu , Wei Zhuo , Jun Cheng , Yingying Liu , Wufeng Xue , Dong Ni

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

Echocardiography (ECHO) video is widely used for cardiac examination. In clinical, this procedure heavily relies on operator experience, which needs years of training and maybe the assistance of deep learning-based systems for enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xinrui Zhou , Yuhao Huang , Wufeng Xue , Haoran Dou , Jun Cheng , Han Zhou , Dong Ni

In echocardiography (echo), an electrocardiogram (ECG) is conventionally used to temporally align different cardiac views for assessing critical measurements. However, in emergencies or point-of-care situations, acquiring an ECG is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Fatemeh Taheri Dezaki , Christina Luong , Tom Ginsberg , Robert Rohling , Ken Gin , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang

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

Purpose: Echocardiographic interpretation requires video-level reasoning and guideline-based measurement analysis, which current deep learning models for cardiac ultrasound do not support. We present EchoAgent, a framework that enables…

We introduce a unified benchmarking framework focused on evaluating EEG-based foundation models in clinical applications. The benchmark spans 11 well-defined diagnostic tasks across 14 publicly available EEG datasets, including epilepsy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ard Kastrati , Josua Bürki , Jonas Lauer , Cheng Xuan , Raffaele Iaquinto , Roger Wattenhofer

Advances in deep learning have significantly enhanced medical image analysis, yet the availability of large-scale medical datasets remains constrained by patient privacy concerns. We present EchoFlow, a novel framework designed to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hadrien Reynaud , Alberto Gomez , Paul Leeson , Qingjie Meng , Bernhard Kainz

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are inexpensive, widely used, and well-suited to deep learning. Recently, interest has grown in developing foundation models for ECGs - models that generalise across diverse downstream tasks. However, consistent…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is vital in ophthalmology, tackling tasks like diagnosis, classification, and visual question answering (VQA). However, existing AI models in this domain often require extensive annotation and are task-specific,…

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