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Remote fetal monitoring technologies are becoming increasingly common. Yet, most current systems offer limited interpretability, leaving expectant parents with raw cardiotocography (CTG) data that is difficult to understand. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Black Sun , Die , Hu

The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a key diagnostic tool in cardiovascular health. Single-lead ECG recording is integrated into both clinical-grade and consumer wearables. While self-supervised pretraining of foundation models on unlabeled ECGs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuxuan Shu , Peter H. Charlton , Fahim Kawsar , Jussi Hernesniemi , Mohammad Malekzadeh

3D structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) brain scans are commonly acquired in clinical settings to monitor a wide range of neurological conditions, including neurodegenerative disorders and stroke. While deep learning models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Emily Kaczmarek , Justin Szeto , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

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

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…

Foundation models (FMs), powered by self-supervised learning (SSL), have redefined the capabilities of artificial intelligence, demonstrating exceptional performance in domains like natural language processing and computer vision. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hamdi Altaheri , Fakhri Karray , Md. Milon Islam , S M Taslim Uddin Raju , Amir-Hossein Karimi

Foundation models (FMs) have shown transformative potential in radiology by performing diverse, complex tasks across imaging modalities. Here, we developed CT-FM, a large-scale 3D image-based pre-trained model designed explicitly for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Suraj Pai , Ibrahim Hadzic , Dennis Bontempi , Keno Bressem , Benjamin H. Kann , Andriy Fedorov , Raymond H. Mak , Hugo J. W. L. Aerts

Computed tomography (CT) imaging is a promising approach to diagnosing the COVID-19. Machine learning methods can be employed to train models from labeled CT images and predict whether a case is positive or negative. However, there exists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Yi Liu , Shuiwang Ji

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

Aligning physiological parameter labels with large-scale photoplethysmographic (PPG) data for deep learning is challenging and resource-intensive. While self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) can handle limited annotated data, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zexing Zhang , Huimin Lu , Songzhe Ma , Jianzhong Peng , Chenglin Lin , Niya Li , Bingwang Dong

Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging is a vital non-invasive tool for diagnosing heart diseases and evaluating cardiac health. However, the limited availability of large-scale, high-quality CMR datasets poses a major challenge to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ziyu Li , Yujian Hu , Zhengyao Ding , Yiheng Mao , Haitao Li , Fan Yi , Hongkun Zhang , Zhengxing Huang

Cross-subject electroencephalography (EEG) decoding remains a fundamental challenge in brain-computer interface (BCI) research due to substantial inter-subject variability and the scarcity of subject-invariant representations. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Changhong Jing , Yan Liu , Shuqiang Wang , Bruce X. B. Yu , Gong Chen , Zhejing Hu , Zhi Zhang , Yanyan Shen

Whole-heart segmentation from CT and MRI scans is crucial for cardiovascular disease analysis, yet existing methods struggle with modality-specific biases and the need for extensive labeled datasets. To address these challenges, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Abdul Qayyum , Moona Mazher , Devran Ugurlu , Jose Alonso Solis Lemus , Cristobal Rodero , Steven A Niederer

Vision Transformers (ViTs) excel in 3D medical segmentation but require massive annotated datasets. While Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) mitigates this using unlabeled data, it still faces strict privacy and logistical barriers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Tang , Mengyan Zheng , Shu Zhang , Fandong Zhang , Qingchao Chen

Specialized foundation models are beginning to emerge in various medical subdomains, but pretraining methodologies and parametric scaling with the size of the pretraining dataset are rarely assessed systematically and in a like-for-like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 M A Al-Masud , Nils Strodthoff

Foundation models (FMs) are transforming computational pathology by offering new ways to analyze histopathology images. However, FMs typically require weeks of training on large databases, making their creation a resource-intensive process.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Till Nicke , Daniela Schacherer , Jan Raphael Schäfer , Natalia Artysh , Antje Prasse , André Homeyer , Andrea Schenk , Henning Höfener , Johannes Lotz

Multi-site MRI studies often suffer from site-specific variations arising from differences in methodology, hardware, and acquisition protocols, thereby compromising accuracy and reliability in clinical AI/ML tasks. We present PRISM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Sarang Galada , Tanurima Halder , Kunal Deo , Ram P Krish , Kshitij Jadhav

Retinal foundation models have significantly advanced retinal image analysis by leveraging self-supervised learning to reduce dependence on labeled data while achieving strong generalization. Many recent approaches enhance retinal image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Yeonkyung Lee , Woojung Han , Youngjun Jun , Hyeonmin Kim , Jungkyung Cho , Seong Jae Hwang

Deep learning models have shown high accuracy in classifying electrocardiograms (ECGs), but their black box nature hinders clinical adoption due to a lack of trust and interpretability. To address this, we propose a novel three-stage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jose Geraldo Fernandes , Luiz Facury de Souza , Pedro Robles Dutenhefner , Gisele L. Pappa , Wagner Meira

Clinical 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely encountered kinds of biosignals. Despite the increased availability of public ECG datasets, label scarcity remains a central challenge in the field. Self-supervised…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Temesgen Mehari , Nils Strodthoff