English
Related papers

Related papers: Investigating ECG Diagnosis with Ambiguous Labels …

200 papers

Supervised machine learning applications in health care are often limited due to a scarcity of labeled training data. To mitigate this effect of small sample size, we introduce a pre-training approach, Patient Contrastive Learning of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Nathaniel Diamant , Erik Reinertsen , Steven Song , Aaron Aguirre , Collin Stultz , Puneet Batra

A large number of people suffer from life-threatening cardiac abnormalities, and electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis is beneficial to determining whether an individual is at risk of such abnormalities. Automatic ECG classification methods,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Yuexin Bian , Jintai Chen , Xiaojun Chen , Xiaoxian Yang , Danny Z. Chen , JIan Wu

This position paper argues that current benchmarking practice in 12-lead ECG representation learning must be fixed to ensure progress is reliable and aligned with clinically meaningful objectives. The field has largely converged on three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zachary Berger , Daniel Prakah-Asante , John Guttag , Collin M. Stultz

Pulmonary embolism is a leading cause of out of hospital cardiac arrest that requires fast diagnosis. While computed tomography pulmonary angiography is the standard diagnostic tool, it is not always accessible. Electrocardiography is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Joao D. S. Marques , Arlindo L. Oliveira

In the medical field, current ECG signal analysis approaches rely on supervised deep neural networks trained for specific tasks that require substantial amounts of labeled data. However, our paper introduces ECGBERT, a self-supervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Seokmin Choi , Sajad Mousavi , Phillip Si , Haben G. Yhdego , Fatemeh Khadem , Fatemeh Afghah

Partial label learning (PLL) is an important problem that allows each training example to be labeled with a coarse candidate set, which well suits many real-world data annotation scenarios with label ambiguity. Despite the promise, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Haobo Wang , Ruixuan Xiao , Yixuan Li , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Gang Chen , Junbo Zhao

Partial-label learning is a popular weakly supervised learning setting that allows each training example to be annotated with a set of candidate labels. Previous studies on partial-label learning only focused on the classification setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xin Cheng , Deng-Bao Wang , Lei Feng , Min-Ling Zhang , Bo An

With recently successful applications of deep learning in computer vision and general signal processing, deep learning has shown many unique advantages in medical signal processing. However, data labelling quality has become one of the most…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Zijiao Chen , Zihuai Lin , Peng Wang , Ming Ding

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

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential signal in monitoring human heart activities. Researchers have achieved promising results in leveraging ECGs in clinical applications with deep learning models. However, the mainstream deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Han Yu , Huiyuan Yang , Akane Sano

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

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is one of the most effective sources of information mainly employed for the diagnosis and prediction of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) connected with the abnormalities in heart rhythm. Clearly, single modality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Thinh Phan , Duc Le , Patel Brijesh , Donald Adjeroh , Jingxian Wu , Morten Olgaard Jensen , Ngan Le

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yi Yuan , Joseph Van Duyn , Runze Yan , Zhuoyi Huang , Sulaiman Vesal , Sergey Plis , Xiao Hu , Gloria Hyunjung Kwak , Ran Xiao , Alex Fedorov

Partial Label Learning (PLL) aims to train a classifier when each training instance is associated with a set of candidate labels, among which only one is correct but is not accessible during the training phase. The common strategy dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yao Yao , Chen Gong , Jiehui Deng , Jian Yang

The 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) is a commonly used tool for detecting cardiac abnormalities such as atrial fibrillation, blocks, and irregular complexes. For the PhysioNet/CinC 2020 Challenge, we built an algorithm using gradient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-27 Alexander William Wong , Weijie Sun , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Padma Kaul , Abram Hindle

Partial label learning (PLL) aims to solve the problem where each training instance is associated with a set of candidate labels, one of which is the correct label. Most PLL algorithms try to disambiguate the candidate label set, by either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Gengyu Lyu , Songhe Feng , Congyang Lang

Electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities are linked to cardiovascular diseases, but may also occur in other non-cardiovascular conditions such as mental, neurological, metabolic and infectious conditions. However, most of the recent success of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Weijie Sun , Sunil Vasu Kalmady , Amir Salimi , Nariman Sepehrvand , Eric Ly , Abram Hindle , Russell Greiner , Padma Kaul

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for analyzing medical data, particularly Electrocardiogram (ECG), offers high accuracy and convenience. However, generating reliable, evidence-based results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Jin Yu , JaeHo Park , TaeJun Park , Gyurin Kim , JiHyun Lee , Min Sung Lee , Joon-myoung Kwon , Jeong Min Son , Yong-Yeon Jo

Partial label learning (PLL) seeks to train generalizable classifiers from datasets with inexact supervision, a common challenge in real-world applications. Existing studies have developed numerous approaches to progressively refine and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Kuang He , Wei Tang , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

Partial-label learning (PLL) is an important branch of weakly supervised learning where the single ground truth resides in a set of candidate labels, while the research rarely considers the label imbalance. A recent study for imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Mingyu Xu , Zheng Lian