arXiv:2610.07662v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) records the electrical activity of the heart, aiding diagnosis by detecting abnormalities in cardiac function. ECG foundation...
By Robert A. Lewis, I-Min Chiu, Kyle Verrier, Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram, Francoise Marvel, Salar Abbaspourazad, Anshuman Mishra, Guillermo Sapiro, Andrew C. Miller, Joseph Futoma
arXiv:2608. 05893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely used non-invasive tools for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, but transforming multi-lead ECG recordings into reliable clinical reports remains challenging.
By Akanta Das, Tasinul Islam Ahon, Ahmed Mahir Sultan Rumi, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tausif Amim Shadly, Tanzima Hashem
arXiv:2608. 09053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiologists interpret electrocardiograms by localizing waveform components, measuring rhythm and interval patterns, and translating these structured observations into diagnostic evidence.
By Hongxiang Gao, He-yang Xu, Yuwen Li, Minghui Zhao, Zhipeng Cai, Xingyao Wang, Chenxi Yang, Jianqing Li, Chengyu Liu
Cardiologists interpret electrocardiograms by localizing waveform components, measuring rhythm and interval patterns, and translating these structured observations into diagnostic evidence. Whether this expert reading process can serve as an effective prior for ECG agents remains unclear.
arXiv:2607. 16323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is an inexpensive, standard-of-care test for cardiac symptoms, but front-line triage often lacks immediate access to definitive imaging such as echocardiography (ECHO) or cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR).
By Alexander Selivanov, Friederike Jungmann, Jan Kehrer, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Eimo Martens, Daniel Rueckert
FOCAL is a framework that aligns fine-grained ECG waveform segments with specific report tags using Optimal Transport, addressing the lack of localized representation in prior methods. It introduces a semantic similarity matrix to mitigate false negatives when reports share diagnoses, and a coarse‑to‑fine enrichment pipeline that employs Large Language Models to recover missing waveform semantics while filtering hallucinations. Experiments on six datasets show FOCAL achieves state‑of‑the‑art zero‑shot prediction and linear probing performance.
By Haitao Li, Che Liu, Zhengyao Ding, Ziyi Liu, Wenqi Shao, Zhengxing Huang
arXiv:2606. 06718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Myocardial substrate abnormalities, such as myocardial scar and myocardial infarction (MI), are associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes.
By Canyu Lei, Fenglin Zhang, Derek Bivona, Cristiane Singulane, Jonathan Pan, Kenneth Bilchick, Amit R. Patel, Jianxin Xie
arXiv:2512. 11095v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Label ambiguity is an inherent and largely unaddressed challenge in real-world electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis, arising from overlapping conditions and diagnostic disagreements.
By Sana Rahmani, Javad Hashemi, Ali Etemad
arXiv:2607. 24035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) is used to assess whether artificial intelligence models rely on meaningful patterns, yet explanations that appear plausible for individual predictions may systematically misrepresent model behavior.
By Nils Gumpfer, Michael Guckert, Samuel Sossalla, Birgit A{\ss}mus, Jennifer Hannig
BEAT-Net is a supervised biomimetic framework for ECG diagnosis that incorporates QRS-centered tokenization and a hierarchical architecture mirroring a cardiologist’s workflow. It processes heartbeat sequences through morphological, spatial, temporal, and transformer-based stages, achieving an AUC of 0.924 on large benchmarks while using only 0.7 million parameters. The model outperforms the 39.5‑million‑parameter HeartLang foundation model on morphological form classification and demonstrates superior cross‑dataset generalization with only 35% of the training data.
By Runze Ma, Haonan Lyu, Shunbo Jia, Qiang Yang, Muzi Xu, Jiaqi Zhang, Zihe Luo, Caizhi Liao
arXiv:2605. 31249v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is a cornerstone of cardiac assessment, making the learning of informative ECG representations fundamental to tasks ranging from disease diagnosis to clinical report generation.
By Bosong Huang, Panzhen Zhao, Zengxiang Li, Patricia Lee, Wei Jin, Alan Wee-Chung Liew, Ming Jin, Shirui Pan
arXiv:2605. 00647v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated pediatric electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation remains challenging because developmental differences in heart rate, intervals, and waveforms limit the transferability of models trained mainly on adult data, while expert-labeled pediatric ECG cohorts are scarce.
By Xinran Liu, Yuwen Li, Hongxiang Gao, Heyang Xu, Jianqing Li, Zongmin Wang, Chengyu Liu