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Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is a fundamental tool for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions, yet anomaly detection in ECG signals remains challenging due to their inherent complexity and variability. We propose Multi-scale Masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ya Zhou , Yujie Yang , Jianhuang Gan , Xiangjie Li , Jing Yuan , Wei Zhao

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a ubiquitous diagnostic modality. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied towards ECG analysis require large sample sizes, and transfer learning approaches result in suboptimal performance when…

Deep learning models have shown high accuracy in classifying electrocardiograms (ECGs), but their black box nature hinders clinical adoption due to a lack of trust and interpretability. To address this, we propose a novel three-stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jose Geraldo Fernandes , Luiz Facury de Souza , Pedro Robles Dutenhefner , Gisele L. Pappa , Wagner Meira

The diagnostic value of electrocardiogram (ECG) lies in its dynamic characteristics, ranging from rhythm fluctuations to subtle waveform deformations that evolve across time and frequency domains. However, supervised ECG models tend to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 He-Yang Xu , Hongxiang Gao , Yuwen Li , Xiu-Shen Wei , Chengyu Liu

Clinicians generally diagnose cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) using standard 12-Lead electrocardiogram (ECG). However, for smartphone-based public healthcare systems, a reduced 3-lead system may be preferred because of (i) increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Aditya Mallick , Rahul L R , Albert Shaiju , Satya Deepika Neelapala , Lopamudra Giri , Rahuldeb Sarkar , Soumya Jana

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

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is vital for detecting cardiac abnormalities, yet robust automated classification is challenging due to the complexity and variability of physiological signals. In this work, we investigate transformer-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Sucheta Ghosh , Zahra Monfared

We present CardiacGen, a Deep Learning framework for generating synthetic but physiologically plausible cardiac signals like ECG. Based on the physiology of cardiovascular system function, we propose a modular hierarchical generative model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Tushar Agarwal , Emre Ertin

Transformer plays an increasingly important role in various computer vision areas and remarkable achievements have also been made in point cloud analysis. Since they mainly focus on point-wise transformer, an adaptive channel encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Guoquan Xu , Hezhi Cao , Yifan Zhang , Yanxin Ma , Jianwei Wan , Ke Xu

This paper studies a text classification algorithm based on an improved Transformer to improve the performance and efficiency of the model in text classification tasks. Aiming at the shortcomings of the traditional Transformer model in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jia Gao , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Shicheng Zhou , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

We present a model for predicting electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities in short-duration 12-lead ECG signals which outperformed medical doctors on the 4th year of their cardiology residency. Such exams can provide a full evaluation of…

The forward problem in electrocardiology, computing body surface potentials from cardiac electrical activity, is traditionally solved using physics-based models such as the bidomain or monodomain equations. While accurate, these approaches…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Shaheim Ogbomo-Harmitt , Cesare Magnetti , Chiara Spota , Jakub Grzelak , Oleg Aslanidi

We propose a cross-attention Transformer for joint decoding of uplink OFDM signals received by multiple coordinated access points. A shared per-receiver encoder learns the time-frequency structure of each grid, and a token-wise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Xavier Tardy , Grégoire Lefebvre , Apostolos Kountouris , Haïfa Fares , Amor Nafkha

The classification of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, which takes much time and suffers from a high rate of misjudgment, is recognized as an extremely challenging task for cardiologists. The major difficulty of the ECG signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Haozhen Zhang , Wei Zhao , Shuang Liu

Effective modeling of electronic health records (EHR) is rapidly becoming an important topic in both academia and industry. A recent study showed that using the graphical structure underlying EHR data (e.g. relationship between diagnoses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Edward Choi , Zhen Xu , Yujia Li , Michael W. Dusenberry , Gerardo Flores , Yuan Xue , Andrew M. Dai

Effectively encoding multi-scale contextual information is crucial for accurate semantic segmentation. Existing transformer-based segmentation models combine features across scales without any selection, where features on sub-optimal scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Hengcan Shi , Munawar Hayat , Jianfei Cai

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is a critical task in medical image analysis, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for lung segmentation by integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Nazanin Mahjourian , Mohammad Manthouri

Complex-valued signals encode both amplitude and phase, yet most deep models treat attention as real-valued correlation, overlooking interference effects. We introduce the Holographic Transformer, a physics-inspired architecture that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Enhao Huang , Zhiyu Zhang , Tianxiang Xu , Chunshu Xia , Kaichun Hu , Yuchen Yang , Tongtong Pan , Dong Dong , Zhan Qin

Conventional task-specific electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis models require large annotated datasets to train. Foundation models mitigate this burden by leveraging self-supervised pretraining; however, the scarcity of open-weight ECG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kaden McKeen , Sameer Masood , Augustin Toma , Barry Rubin , Bo Wang

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death globally, underscoring the need for effective, accessible monitoring solutions, particularly through wearable devices that enable continuous, real-time tracking of heart rhythms in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Maedeh H. Toosi , Siamak Mohammadi