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Deployments of artificial intelligence in medical diagnostics mandate not just accuracy and efficacy but also trust, emphasizing the need for explainability in machine decisions. The recent trend in automated medical image diagnostics leans…

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Transformers are increasingly dominating multi-modal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering, achieving state-of-the-art results thanks to their ability to contextualize information using the self-attention and co-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hila Chefer , Shir Gur , Lior Wolf

Electrocardiography (ECG) is an effective and non-invasive diagnostic tool that measures the electrical activity of the heart. Interpretation of ECG signals to detect various abnormalities is a challenging task that requires expertise.…

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

Transformers have recently gained attention in the computer vision domain due to their ability to model long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism, which is the core part of the Transformer model, usually suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Reza Azad , René Arimond , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Dorit Merhof

Large Language Models (LLMs) hold significant promise for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis, yet challenges remain regarding transferability, time-scale information learning, and interpretability. Current methods suffer from model-specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yong Xia , Jingxuan Li , YeTeng Sun , Jiarui Bu

The growing reliance of machine learning models in high-stakes, highly regulated domains such as finance and insurance has created a growing tension between predictive performance, interpretability, and regulatory fairness requirements. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Panyi Dong , Zhiyu Quan

Advancements in deep learning have enabled highly accurate arrhythmia detection from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, but limited interpretability remains a barrier to clinical adoption. This study investigates the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Joschka Beck , Arlene John

Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models represent a paradigm shift from task-specific pipelines to generalizable architectures pre-trained on large-scale unlabeled waveform data. This survey presents a unified and deployment-aware review…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Mudassir Hasan Khan , Ahmad Nayfeh , Mudassir Masood , Ali Ahmad Al-Shaikhi , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Electrocardiogram is a useful diagnostic signal that can detect cardiac abnormalities by measuring the electrical activity generated by the heart. Due to its rapid, non-invasive, and richly informative characteristics, ECG has many emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hanhui Deng , Xinglin Li , Jie Luo , Di Wu

The paradigm of electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis has evolved into real-time digital analysis, facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), which has improved the diagnostic precision and predictive capacity of…

We propose a novel deep neural network architecture to learn interpretable representation for medical image analysis. Our architecture generates a global attention for region of interest, and then learns bag of words style deep feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Soumen Basu , Mayank Gupta , Pratyaksha Rana , Pankaj Gupta , Chetan Arora

Interpretability is essential in medical imaging to ensure that clinicians can comprehend and trust artificial intelligence models. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretable approach that combines attribute regularization of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Maxime Di Folco , Cosmin I. Bercea , Julia A. Schnabel

Electrocardiogram (ECG) arrhythmia classification remains challenging due to signal variability, noise, limited labeled data, and the difficulty in achieving both accuracy and efficiency in models. While self-supervised learning reduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mahsa Gazeran , Sayvan Soleymanbaigi , Fatemeh Daneshfar , Amjad Seyedi , Fardin Akhlaghian Tab

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

Electroencephalography (EEG) is one of the most common signals used to capture the electrical activity of the brain, and the decoding of EEG, to acquire the user intents, has been at the forefront of brain-computer/machine interfaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Haodong Zhang , Hongqi Li

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a popular and effective tool for emotion recognition. However, the propagation mechanisms of EEG in the human brain and its intrinsic correlation with emotions are still obscure to researchers. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jiyao Liu , Hao Wu , Li Zhang , Yanxi Zhao

Alterations in the geometry and function of the heart define well-established causes of cardiovascular disease. However, current approaches to the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases often rely on subjective human assessment as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Carlo Biffi , Ozan Oktay , Giacomo Tarroni , Wenjia Bai , Antonio De Marvao , Georgia Doumou , Martin Rajchl , Reem Bedair , Sanjay Prasad , Stuart Cook , Declan O'Regan , Daniel Rueckert

In this work, we present RadioTransformer, a novel visual attention-driven transformer framework, that leverages radiologists' gaze patterns and models their visuo-cognitive behavior for disease diagnosis on chest radiographs. Domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Moinak Bhattacharya , Shubham Jain , Prateek Prasanna

Attention mechanisms have played a crucial role in the development of complex architectures such as Transformers in natural language processing. However, Transformers remain hard to interpret and are considered as black-boxes. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Milan Bhan , Nina Achache , Victor Legrand , Annabelle Blangero , Nicolas Chesneau