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Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a reliable tool for medical professionals to detect and diagnose abnormal heart waves that may cause cardiovascular diseases. This paper proposes a methodology to create a new high-quality heartbeat dataset from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Ahmed. S Benmessaoud , Farida Medjani , Yahia Bousseloub , Khalid Bouaita , Dhia Benrahem , Tahar Kezai

Models based on large-pretrained language models, such as S(entence)BERT, provide effective and efficient sentence embeddings that show high correlation to human similarity ratings, but lack interpretability. On the other hand, graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Juri Opitz , Anette Frank

We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models, BERT is designed to pre-train deep bidirectional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jacob Devlin , Ming-Wei Chang , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

In the process of patient diagnosis, non-invasive measurements are widely used due to their low risks and quick results. Electrocardiogram (ECG), as a non-invasive method to collect heart activities, is used to diagnose cardiac conditions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuhao Xu , Jiaying Lu , Sirui Ding , Defu Cao , Xiao Hu , Carl Yang

Neurophysiological time series recordings like the electroencephalogram (EEG) or local field potentials are obtained from multiple sensors. They can be decoded by machine learning models in order to estimate the ongoing brain state of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Pierre Guetschel , Théodore Papadopoulo , Michael Tangermann

Transformers-based models, such as BERT, have dramatically improved the performance for various natural language processing tasks. The clinical knowledge enriched model, namely ClinicalBERT, also achieved state-of-the-art results when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yikuan Li , Ramsey M. Wehbe , Faraz S. Ahmad , Hanyin Wang , Yuan Luo

The classification of the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has a vital impact on identifying heart-related diseases. This can ensure the premature finding of heart disease and the proper selection of the patient's customized treatment.…

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

Cardiologists use electrocardiograms (ECG) for the detection of arrhythmias. However, continuous monitoring of ECG signals to detect cardiac abnormal-ities requires significant time and human resources. As a result, several deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 JuneYoung Park , Da Young Kim , Yunsoo Kim , Jisu Yoo , Tae Joon Kim

We introduce SetBERT, a fine-tuned BERT-based model designed to enhance query embeddings for set operations and Boolean logic queries, such as Intersection (AND), Difference (NOT), and Union (OR). SetBERT significantly improves retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Quan Mai , Susan Gauch , Douglas Adams

In recent years, deep learning has witnessed its blossom in the field of Electrocardiography (ECG) processing, outperforming traditional signal processing methods in various tasks, for example, classification, QRS detection, wave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Wen Hao , Kang Jingsu

Increasing model size when pretraining natural language representations often results in improved performance on downstream tasks. However, at some point further model increases become harder due to GPU/TPU memory limitations and longer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Zhenzhong Lan , Mingda Chen , Sebastian Goodman , Kevin Gimpel , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

We exploit a self-supervised deep multi-task learning framework for electrocardiogram (ECG) -based emotion recognition. The proposed solution consists of two stages of learning a) learning ECG representations and b) learning to classify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Pritam Sarkar , Ali Etemad

Radiology reports are one of the main forms of communication between radiologists and other clinicians and contain important information for patient care. In order to use this information for research and automated patient care programs, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Grey Kuling , Belinda Curpen , Anne L. Martel

Machine learning methods have recently achieved high-performance in biomedical text analysis. However, a major bottleneck in the widespread application of these methods is obtaining the required large amounts of annotated training data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Xing Meng , Craig H. Ganoe , Ryan T. Sieberg , Yvonne Y. Cheung , Saeed Hassanpour

Encoder-only transformer models such as BERT offer a great performance-size tradeoff for retrieval and classification tasks with respect to larger decoder-only models. Despite being the workhorse of numerous production pipelines, there have…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals play critical roles in the clinical screening and diagnosis of many types of cardiovascular diseases. Despite deep neural networks that have been greatly facilitated computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Liu , Zhongyu Li , Xiayue Fan , Jintao Yan , Bolin Li , Xuemeng Hu , Qing Xia , Yue Wu

Recent years have seen particular interest in using electronic medical records (EMRs) for secondary purposes to enhance the quality and safety of healthcare delivery. EMRs tend to contain large amounts of valuable clinical notes. Learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Hoda Memarzadeh , Nasser Ghadiri , Maryam Lotfi Shahreza

In recent years, with the growing amount of biomedical documents, coupled with advancement in natural language processing algorithms, the research on biomedical named entity recognition (BioNER) has increased exponentially. However, BioNER…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Usman Naseem , Matloob Khushi , Vinay Reddy , Sakthivel Rajendran , Imran Razzak , Jinman Kim

In this paper, we propose an algorithm denoted as HeartBEAT that tracks heart rate from wrist-type photoplethysmography (PPG) signals and simultaneously recorded three-axis acceleration data. HeartBEAT contains three major parts: spectrum…

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