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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

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

We present ConvexECG, an explainable and resource-efficient method for reconstructing six-lead electrocardiograms (ECG) from single-lead data, aimed at advancing personalized and continuous cardiac monitoring. ConvexECG leverages a convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Rayan Ansari , John Cao , Sabyasachi Bandyopadhyay , Sanjiv M. Narayan , Albert J. Rogers , Mert Pilanci

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a group of heart and blood vessel disorders that is one of the most serious dangers to human health, and the number of such patients is still growing. Early and accurate detection plays a key role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Khiem H. Le , Hieu H. Pham , Thao BT. Nguyen , Tu A. Nguyen , Tien N. Thanh , Cuong D. Do

High-fidelity ECG interpretation is increasingly reliant on massive foundation models, yet their deployment in clinical edge-care remains hindered by extreme computational demands. While knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Dang Hong Nguyen , Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen , Huy-Hieu Pham

The diagnostic value of electrocardiogram (ECG) lies in its dynamic characteristics, ranging from rhythm fluctuations to subtle waveform deformations that evolve across time and frequency domains. However, supervised ECG models tend to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 He-Yang Xu , Hongxiang Gao , Yuwen Li , Xiu-Shen Wei , Chengyu Liu

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

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

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

Electrocardiography (ECG) serves as an indispensable diagnostic tool in clinical practice, yet existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain unreliable for ECG interpretation, often producing plausible but clinically incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiarui Jin , Haoyu Wang , Xingliang Wu , Xiaocheng Fang , Xiang Lan , Zihan Wang , Deyun Zhang , Bo Liu , Yingying Zhang , Xian Wu , Hongyan Li , Shenda Hong

Objective: A novel structure based on channel-wise attention mechanism is presented in this paper. Embedding with the proposed structure, an efficient classification model that accepts multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) as input is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-27 Hao Tung , Chao Zheng , Xinsheng Mao , Dahong Qian

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used tool for assessing cardiac function due to its low cost and accessibility. Emergent research shows that ECGs can help make predictions on key outcomes traditionally derived from more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuan Gao , Sangwook Kim , Chris McIntosh

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

Although electrocardiograms (ECG) play a dominant role in cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment, their intrinsic data forms and representational patterns pose significant challenges for medical multimodal large language models (Med-MLLMs)…

The utilization of deep learning on electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis has brought the advanced accuracy and efficiency of cardiac healthcare diagnostics. By leveraging the capabilities of deep learning in semantic understanding, especially…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Akane Sano

Electrocardiography (ECG) is central to cardiovascular care, but conventional AI models are often restricted to common arrhythmias and may generalize poorly across populations or clinically subtle diseases. We developed ECG Contrastive…

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most frequent and routine diagnostic tool used for monitoring heart electrical signals and evaluating its functionality. The human heart can suffer from a variety of diseases, including cardiac arrhythmias.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Negin Alamatsaz , Leyla s Tabatabaei , Mohammadreza Yazdchi , Hamidreza Payan , Nima Alamatsaz , Fahimeh Nasimi

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal exhibits inherent uniqueness, making it a promising biometric modality for identity authentication. As a result, ECG authentication has gained increasing attention in recent years. However, most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Mingyu Dong , Zhidong Zhao , Hao Wang , Yefei Zhang , Yanjun Deng

The electrocardiogram (ECG) records electrical signals in a non-invasive way to observe the condition of the heart, typically looking at the heart from 12 different directions. Several types of the cardiac disease are diagnosed by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Yong-Yeon Jo , Young Sang Choi , Jong-Hwan Jang , Joon-Myoung Kwon

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