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An electrocardiogram (ECG) is vital for identifying cardiac diseases, offering crucial insights for diagnosing heart conditions and informing potentially life-saving treatments. However, like other types of medical data, ECGs are subject to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Sergey Skorik , Aram Avetisyan

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

We report Lobachevsky University Database (LUDB) of ECG signals, an open tool for validating ECG delineation algorithms, that is superior to the existing publicly available data bases in several aspects. LUDB contains 200 recordings of…

Generating synthetic ECG data has numerous applications in healthcare, from educational purposes to simulating scenarios and forecasting trends. While recent diffusion models excel at generating short ECG segments, they struggle with longer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Paul Pöhl , Viktor Schlegel , Hao Li , Anil Bharath

Electrocardiogram (ECG) plays a foundational role in modern cardiovascular care, enabling non-invasive diagnosis of arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia, and conduction disorders. While machine learning has achieved expert-level performance in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Deyun Zhang , Xiang Lan , Shijia Geng , Qinghao Zhao , Sumei Fan , Mengling Feng , Shenda Hong

Electrocardiogram (ECG) detection and delineation are key steps for numerous tasks in clinical practice, as ECG is the most performed non-invasive test for assessing cardiac condition. State-of-the-art algorithms employ digital signal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Guillermo Jimenez-Perez , Alejandro Alcaine , Oscar Camara

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a reliable tool for medical professionals to detect and diagnose abnormal heart waves that may cause cardiovascular diseases. This paper proposes a methodology to create a new high-quality heartbeat dataset from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Ahmed. S Benmessaoud , Farida Medjani , Yahia Bousseloub , Khalid Bouaita , Dhia Benrahem , Tahar Kezai

Electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets tend to be highly imbalanced due to the scarcity of abnormal cases. Additionally, the use of real patients' ECGs is highly regulated due to privacy issues. Therefore, there is always a need for more ECG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Edmond Adib , Fatemeh Afghah , John J. Prevost

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals play critical roles in the clinical screening and diagnosis of many types of cardiovascular diseases. Despite deep neural networks that have been greatly facilitated computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jingyi Liu , Zhongyu Li , Xiayue Fan , Jintao Yan , Bolin Li , Xuemeng Hu , Qing Xia , Yue Wu

Millions of clinical ECGs exist only as paper scans, making them unusable for modern automated diagnostics. We introduce a fully automated, modular framework that converts scanned or photographed ECGs into digital signals, suitable for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Elias Stenhede , Agnar Martin Bjørnstad , Arian Ranjbar

A language is made up of an infinite/finite number of sentences, which in turn is composed of a number of words. The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most popular noninvasive medical tool for studying heart function and diagnosing various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Prapti Ganguly , Wazib Ansar , Amlan Chakrabarti

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)…

Auxiliary diagnosis of cardiac electrophysiological status can be obtained through the analysis of 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs). This work proposes a dual-scale lead-separated transformer with lead-orthogonal attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yang Li , Guijin Wang , Zhourui Xia , Wenming Yang , Li Sun

Electrocardiogram~(ECG), a key bioelectrical time-series signal, is crucial for assessing cardiac health and diagnosing various diseases. Given its time-series format, ECG data is often incorporated into pre-training datasets for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Zhijiang Tang , Jiaxin Qi , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

Synthetic electrocardiogram generation serves medical AI applications requiring privacy-preserving data sharing and training dataset augmentation. Current diffusion-based methods achieve high generation quality but require hundreds of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Vitalii Bondar , Serhii Semenov , Vira Babenko , Dmytro Holovniak

Objectives: With the technological advancements in the field of tele-health monitoring, it is now possible to gather huge amounts of electro-physiological signals such as electrocardiogram (ECG). It is therefore necessary to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Abdolrahman Peimankar , Sadasivan Puthusserypady

The adoption of deep learning-based healthcare decision support systems such as the detection of irregular cardiac rhythm is hindered by challenges such as lack of access to quality data and the high costs associated with the collection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sagnik Dakshit , Barbara Mukami Maweu , Sristi Dakshit , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

The generation of high-quality medical time series data is essential for advancing healthcare diagnostics and safeguarding patient privacy. Specifically, synthesizing realistic phonocardiogram (PCG) signals offers significant potential as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ainaz Jamshidi , Muhammad Arif , Sabir Ali Kalhoro , Alexander Gelbukh

This paper presents ECGXtract, a deep learning-based approach for interpretable ECG feature extraction, addressing the limitations of traditional signal processing and black-box machine learning methods. In particular, we develop…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Youssif Abuzied , Hassan AbdEltawab , Abdelrhman Gaber , Tamer ElBatt

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) have shown unique patterns to distinguish between different subjects and present important advantages compared to other biometric traits, such as difficulty to counterfeit, liveness detection, and ubiquity. Also,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Pietro Melzi , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez