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Interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs) and generating comprehensive reports remain challenging tasks in cardiology, often requiring specialized expertise and significant time investment. To address these critical issues, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Jialu Tang , Tong Xia , Yuan Lu , Cecilia Mascolo , Aaqib Saeed

ECG heartbeat classification plays a vital role in diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia. The goal of the Physionet/CinC 2021 challenge was to accurately classify clinical diagnosis based on 12, 6, 4, 3 or 2-lead ECG recordings in order to aid…

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…

Electrocardiography (ECG) is a low-cost, widely used modality for diagnosing electrical abnormalities like atrial fibrillation by capturing the heart's electrical activity. However, it cannot directly measure cardiac morphological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Michelle Espranita Liman , Özgün Turgut , Alexander Müller , Eimo Martens , Daniel Rueckert , Philip Müller

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

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the most commonly used non-invasive, convenient medical monitoring tools that assist in the clinical diagnosis of heart diseases. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques, particularly self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jun Li , Che Liu , Sibo Cheng , Rossella Arcucci , Shenda Hong

The accurate interpretation of Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is pivotal for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. Integrating ECG signals with accompanying textual reports further holds immense potential to enhance clinical diagnostics by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Hung Manh Pham , Aaqib Saeed , Dong Ma

In conventional machine learning (ML) approaches applied to electroencephalography (EEG), this is often a limited focus, isolating specific brain activities occurring across disparate temporal scales (from transient spikes in milliseconds…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-06 Jonathan W. Kim , Ahmed Alaa , Danilo Bernardo

This study addresses the classification of heartbeats from ECG signals through two distinct approaches: traditional machine learning utilizing hand-crafted features and deep learning via transformed images of ECG beats. The dataset…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Thien Nhan Vo

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

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

Accurate interpretation of electrocardiogram (ECG) remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled data and the high cost of expert annotation. Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a promising solution by enabling models to learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zehao Qin , Xiaojian Lin , Ping Zhang , Hongliang Wu , Xinkang Wang , Guangling Liu , Bo Chen , Wenming Yang , Guijin Wang

Electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis remains challenging due to limited labeled data and the need to capture subtle yet clinically meaningful variations in rhythm and morphology. We present CREMA (Contrastive Regularized Masked Autoencoder), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Junho Song , Jong-Hwan Jang , DongGyun Hong , Joon-myoung Kwon , Yong-Yeon Jo

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…

The analysis of physiological time series, such as electrocardiograms (ECG) and photoplethysmograms (PPG), is persistently hindered by modality and frequency gaps stemming from heterogeneous recording devices. Existing foundation models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Bo Cui , Xiaowen Song , Yaowen Zhang , Shunzhe Zhang , B. J. F. van Beijnum , Monique Tabak , Ying Wang

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have drawn increasing attention since the learned embeddings pretrained on large-scale datasets have shown powerful ability in various downstream applications. However, whether the learned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jielin Qiu , William Han , Jiacheng Zhu , Mengdi Xu , Michael Rosenberg , Emerson Liu , Douglas Weber , Ding Zhao

Electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used reliable, non-invasive approach for cardiovascular disease diagnosis. With the rapid growth of ECG examinations and the insufficiency of cardiologists, accurate and automatic diagnosis of ECG signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dongdong Zhang , Xiaohui Yuan , Ping Zhang

With tens of thousands of electrocardiogram (ECG) records processed by mobile cardiac event recorders every day, heart rhythm classification algorithms are an important tool for the continuous monitoring of patients at risk. We utilise an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Patrick Schwab , Gaetano Scebba , Jia Zhang , Marco Delai , Walter Karlen

This paper introduces LLT-ECG, a novel method for electrocardiogram (ECG) signal classification that leverages concepts from theoretical physics to automatically generate features from time series data. Unlike traditional deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Péter Pósfay , Marcell T. Kurbucz , Péter Kovács , Antal Jakovác

Electrocardiograms (ECGs) play a vital role in monitoring cardiac health and diagnosing heart diseases. However, traditional deep learning approaches for ECG analysis rely heavily on large-scale manual annotations, which are both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Fuying Wang , Jiacheng Xu , Lequan Yu