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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) offers detailed evaluation of cardiac structure and function, but its limited accessibility restricts use to selected patient populations. In contrast, the electrocardiogram (ECG) is ubiquitous and…

Atrial fibrillation is a commonly encountered clinical arrhythmia associated with stroke and increased mortality. Since professional medical knowledge is required for annotation, exploiting a large corpus of ECGs to develop accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-25 Xiangqian Zhu , Mengnan Shi , Xuexin Yu , Chang Liu , Xiaocong Lian , Jintao Fei , Jiangying Luo , Xin Jin , Ping Zhang , Xiangyang Ji

In the field of automatic Electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis, due to the relatively limited amount of labeled data, how to build a robust ECG pretrained model based on unlabeled data is a key area of focus for researchers. Recent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Xiaoyu Sun , Yang Yang , Xunde Dong

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are non-invasive diagnostic tools crucial for detecting cardiac arrhythmic diseases in clinical practice. While ECG Self-supervised Learning (eSSL) methods show promise in representation learning from unannotated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Che Liu , Zhongwei Wan , Cheng Ouyang , Anand Shah , Wenjia Bai , Rossella Arcucci

We propose 3KG, a physiologically-inspired contrastive learning approach that generates views using 3D augmentations of the 12-lead electrocardiogram. We evaluate representation quality by fine-tuning a linear layer for the downstream task…

Electrocardiograms (ECG) are widely employed as a diagnostic tool for monitoring electrical signals originating from a heart. Recent machine learning research efforts have focused on the application of screening various diseases using ECG…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Yeongyeon Na , Minje Park , Yunwon Tae , Sunghoon Joo

Cardiovascular diseases are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Electrocardiogram (ECG) is critical for diagnosing and monitoring cardiac health, but obtaining large-scale annotated ECG datasets is labor-intensive and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Mingsheng Cai , Jiuming Jiang , Wenhao Huang , Che Liu , Rossella Arcucci

The healthcare industry generates troves of unlabelled physiological data. This data can be exploited via contrastive learning, a self-supervised pre-training method that encourages representations of instances to be similar to one another.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Dani Kiyasseh , Tingting Zhu , David A. Clifton

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is essential for the clinical diagnosis of arrhythmias and other heart diseases, but deep learning methods based on ECG often face limitations due to the need for high-quality annotations. Although previous ECG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jiarui Jin , Haoyu Wang , Hongyan Li , Jun Li , Jiahui Pan , Shenda Hong

Learning representations from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals can serve as a fundamental step for different machine learning-based ECG tasks. In order to extract general ECG representations that can be adapted to various downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Wenrui Zhang , Shijia Geng , Shenda Hong

EEG signals are usually simple to obtain but expensive to label. Although supervised learning has been widely used in the field of EEG signal analysis, its generalization performance is limited by the amount of annotated data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Xue Jiang , Jianhui Zhao , Bo Du , Zhiyong Yuan

The objective of this paper is to learn semantic representations for sleep stage classification from raw physiological time series. Although supervised methods have gained remarkable performance, they are limited in clinical situations due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Hongjun Zhang , Jing Wang , Qinfeng Xiao , Jiaoxue Deng , Youfang Lin

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for Chest X-ray (CXR) analysis under limited annotations. Yet, existing SSL strategies remain suboptimal for medical imaging. Masked image modeling allocates substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wangyu Feng , Shawn Young , Lijian Xu

In recent years, self-supervised learning methods have shown significant improvement for pre-training with unlabeled data and have proven helpful for electrocardiogram signals. However, most previous pre-training methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Jungwoo Oh , Hyunseung Chung , Joon-myoung Kwon , Dong-gyun Hong , Edward Choi

This paper systematically investigates the effectiveness of various augmentations for contrastive self-supervised learning of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals and identifies the best parameters. The baseline of our proposed self-supervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Sahar Soltanieh , Ali Etemad , Javad Hashemi

Deep learning-based electrocardiogram (ECG) classification has shown impressive performance but clinical adoption has been slowed by the lack of transparent and faithful explanations. Post hoc methods such as saliency maps may fail to…

In this paper, we explore self-supervised learning (SSL) for analyzing a first-of-its-kind database of cry recordings containing clinical indications of more than a thousand newborns. Specifically, we target cry-based detection of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Arsenii Gorin , Cem Subakan , Sajjad Abdoli , Junhao Wang , Samantha Latremouille , Charles Onu

The multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) stands as a cornerstone of cardiac diagnosis. Recent strides in electrocardiogram self-supervised learning (eSSL) have brightened prospects for enhancing representation learning without relying on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tan Pan , Yixuan Sun , Chen Jiang , Qiong Gao , Rui Sun , Xingmeng Zhang , Zhenqi Yang , Limei Han , Yixiu Liang , Yuan Cheng , Kaiyu Guo

This work discusses the use of contrastive learning and deep learning for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases from electrocardiography (ECG) signals. While the ECG signals usually contain 12 leads (channels), many healthcare facilities and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Tue M. Cao , Nhat H. Tran , Phi Le Nguyen , Hieu Pham

With the progress of sensor technology in wearables, the collection and analysis of PPG signals are gaining more interest. Using Machine Learning, the cardiac rhythm corresponding to PPG signals can be used to predict different tasks such…

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