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Electrocardiogram (ECG) can be reliably used as a measure to monitor the functionality of the cardiovascular system. Recently, there has been a great attention towards accurate categorization of heartbeats. While there are many…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Mohammad Kachuee , Shayan Fazeli , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Deep learning has achieved expert-level performance in automated electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis, yet the "black-box" nature of these models hinders their clinical deployment. Trust in medical AI requires not just high accuracy but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Vajira Thambawita , Jonas L. Isaksen , Jørgen K. Kanters , Hugo L. Hammer , Pål Halvorsen

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

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

Cardiovascular disease remains one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, underscoring the need for accurate as well as interpretable diagnostic machine learning tools. In this work, we investigate heart disease classification using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Mario Padilla Rodriguez , Mohamed Nafea

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

Interpreting and communicating electrocardiogram (ECG) findings are crucial yet challenging tasks in cardiovascular diagnosis, traditionally requiring significant expertise and precise clinical communication. This paper introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Koustav Mallick , Neel Singh , Mohammedreza Hajiarbabi

Cardiovascular disease is a large worldwide healthcare issue; symptoms often present suddenly with minimal warning. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a fast, simple and reliable method of evaluating the health of the heart, by measuring…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-15 Yola Jones , Fani Deligianni , Jeff Dalton

Question answering (QA) in the field of healthcare has received much attention due to significant advancements in natural language processing. However, existing healthcare QA datasets primarily focus on medical images, clinical notes, or…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-12 Jungwoo Oh , Gyubok Lee , Seongsu Bae , Joon-myoung Kwon , Edward Choi

Electrocardiography (ECG) signals are commonly used to diagnose various cardiac abnormalities. Recently, deep learning models showed initial success on modeling ECG data, however they are mostly black-box, thus lack interpretability needed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Shenda Hong , Cao Xiao , Tengfei Ma , Hongyan Li , Jimeng Sun

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

We propose a hierarchical Transformer for ECG analysis that combines depth-wise convolutions, multi-scale feature aggregation via a CLS token, and an attention-gated module to learn inter-lead relationships and enhance interpretability. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xiaoya Tang , Jake Berquist , Benjamin A. Steinberg , Tolga Tasdizen

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show promising performance in automated electrocardiogram interpretation, it remains unclear whether they genuinely perform actual step-by-step reasoning or just rely on superficial visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jungwoo Oh , Hyunseung Chung , Junhee Lee , Min-Gyu Kim , Hangyul Yoon , Ki Seong Lee , Youngchae Lee , Muhan Yeo , Edward Choi

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are an established technique to screen for abnormal cardiac signals. Recent work has established that it is possible to detect arrhythmia directly from the ECG signal using deep learning algorithms. While a few…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Hyewon Jeong , Suyeol Yun , Hammaad Adam

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

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

Low left ventricular ejection fraction (LEF) frequently remains undetected until progression to symptomatic heart failure, underscoring the need for scalable screening strategies. Although artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiography…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ya Zhou , Tianxiang Hao , Ziyi Cai , Haojie Zhu , Kejun He , Jia Liu , Xiaohan Fan , Jing Yuan

Understanding the interaction of neural and cardiac systems during cognitive activity is critical to advancing physiological computing. Although EEG has been the gold standard for assessing mental workload, its limited portability restricts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Akshay Sasi , Malavika Pradeep , Nusaibah Farrukh , Rahul Venugopal , Elizabeth Sherly

Electrocardiography (ECG) plays a central role in cardiovascular diagnostics, yet existing automated approaches often struggle to generalize across clinical tasks and offer limited support for open-ended reasoning. We present HeartLLM, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jinning Yang , Wenjie Sun , Wen Shi

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are among the most widely used diagnostic tools for cardiovascular diseases, and a large amount of ECG data worldwide appears only in image form. However, most existing automated ECG analysis methods rely on access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hung Manh Pham , Jialu Tang , Aaqib Saeed , Dong Ma , Bin Zhu , Pan Zhou