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The adoption of deep learning-based healthcare decision support systems such as the detection of irregular cardiac rhythm is hindered by challenges such as lack of access to quality data and the high costs associated with the collection and…

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring is one of the most powerful technique of cardiovascular disease (CVD) early identification, and the introduction of intelligent wearable ECG devices has enabled daily monitoring. However, due to the need…

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is foundational for cardiovascular disease diagnosis, yet the performance of deep learning models is often constrained by limited access to annotated data. Self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as…

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Heart disease is the number one killer, and ECGs can assist in the early diagnosis and prevention of deadly outcomes. Accurate ECG interpretation is critical in detecting heart diseases; however, they are often misinterpreted due to a lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dharma KC , Chicheng Zhang , Chris Gniady , Parth Sandeep Agarwal , Sushil Sharma

Deep learning models exhibit state-of-the-art performance for many predictive healthcare tasks using electronic health records (EHR) data, but these models typically require training data volume that exceeds the capacity of most healthcare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Edward Choi , Cao Xiao , Walter F. Stewart , Jimeng Sun

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide, highlighting the critical need for efficient and accurate diagnostic tools. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are indispensable in diagnosing various heart conditions;…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Lei Kang , Xuanshuo Fu , Javier Vazquez-Corral , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential non-invasive diagnostic tool for assessing cardiac conditions. Existing automatic interpretation methods suffer from limited generalizability, focusing on a narrow range of cardiac conditions, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ruoqi Liu , Yuelin Bai , Xiang Yue , Ping Zhang

Accurate diagnosis of heart arrhythmias requires the interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECG), which capture the electrical activity of the heart. Automating this process through machine learning is challenging due to the need for large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Kuba Weimann , Tim O. F. Conrad

Electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is crucial for diagnosing heart disease, but most self-supervised learning methods treat ECG as a generic time series, overlooking physiologic semantics and rhythm-level structure. Existing contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xin Wang , Burcu Ozek , Aruna Mohan , Amirhossein Ravari , Or Zilbershot , Fatemeh Afghah

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for over 30% of global deaths according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Importantly, one-third of these deaths are preventable with timely and…

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major pediatric health burden, and early screening is of critical importance. Electrocardiography (ECG), as a noninvasive and accessible tool, is well suited for this purpose. This paper presents the first…

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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.…

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The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential and effective tool for diagnosing heart diseases. However, its effectiveness can be compromised by noise or unavailability of one or more leads of the standard 12-lead recordings, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Huynh Dang Nguyen , Trong-Thang Pham , Ngan Le , Van Nguyen

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a fundamental tool in cardiovascular diagnostics due to its powerful and non-invasive nature. One of the most critical usages is to determine whether more detailed examinations are necessary, with users…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junichiro Takahashi , JingChuan Guan , Masataka Sato , Kaito Baba , Kazuto Haruguchi , Daichi Nagashima , Satoshi Kodera , Norihiko Takeda

While scaling laws have established a fundamental framework for foundation models in natural language processing, their applicability to electrocardiogram (ECG) models remains poorly characterized. Indeed, recent studies do not always yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jiawei Li , Fabio Bonassi , Ming Jin , Stefan Gustafsson , Johan Sundström , Thomas B. Schön , Antônio H. Ribeiro

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

Electrocardiogram~(ECG), a key bioelectrical time-series signal, is crucial for assessing cardiac health and diagnosing various diseases. Given its time-series format, ECG data is often incorporated into pre-training datasets for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Zhijiang Tang , Jiaxin Qi , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

An electrocardiogram (ECG) captures the heart's electrical signal to assess various heart conditions. In practice, ECG data is stored as either digitized signals or printed images. Despite the emergence of numerous deep learning models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Ju-Hyeon Nam , Seo-Hyung Park , Su Jung Kim , Sang-Chul Lee

Electrocardiogram (ECG) detection and delineation are key steps for numerous tasks in clinical practice, as ECG is the most performed non-invasive test for assessing cardiac condition. State-of-the-art algorithms employ digital signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Guillermo Jimenez-Perez , Alejandro Alcaine , Oscar Camara

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the development of multimodal medical AI. While models such as MedGemini achieve high accuracy on VQA tasks like USMLE MM, their performance on ECG based tasks remains limited,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Junichiro Takahashi , Masataka Sato , Satoshi Kodeta , Norihiko Takeda