arXiv:2608. 00058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate measurement of ECG intervals, including PR, QRS duration, and QT/QTc, is central to cardiac diagnosis, yet the published ECG delineation literature evaluates performance almost exclusively as fiducial-point timing errors on small curated databases, rather than as clinical interval accuracy on large unselected cohorts.
By Farhan Adam Mukadam, Harshit Mishra, Nachiket Makwana, Pradyot Tiwari, Subramani Kandasamy, KVS Hari
arXiv:2607. 23406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring is essential for connected health systems and wearable devices, enabling early detection, longitudinal tracking, and personalized management of cardiovascular disease.
By Bo Wu, Haoling Wang, Zhuodiao Kuang, Kateryna Shapovalenko
arXiv:2607. 27404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing benchmarks for electrocardiogram foundation models primarily evaluate downstream predictive performance, providing limited insight into whether their internal representations can be faithfully decomposed, clinically interpreted, or reproduced across independent analyses.
By Yixuan Duan, Wei Qiu
Electrocardiography (ECG) contains subject-specific morphology that supports biometric recognition, yet image-based performance depends on how the waveform is rendered. We introduce representative-mor...
The paper introduces representative‑morphology heatmaps, a deterministic ECG‑to‑image representation that averages the five beats closest to the block mean within each ten‑beat block, producing either a conventional trace or a dense cardiac‑time‑by‑lead heatmap. Experiments on PTB, ECG‑ID, and MIMIC‑IV‑ECG‑DEMO show that heatmaps consistently improve verification and identification performance across 15 compact models, reducing EER by an average of 9.59 percentage points and increasing Rank‑1 by 24.69 points. The study also demonstrates that ImageNet initialization benefits multilead datasets, that performance does not scale monotonically with model size, and that useful channel combinations vary by cohort and biometric task.
By Athanasios Angelakis, Marta Gomez-Barrero
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:2607. 23412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are widely used for cardiovascular risk prediction, yet models often fail to transfer across hospitals because of protocol, population, and measurement differences.
By Jie Lin, Weijie Sun, Sunil V. Kalmady, Anita Khalafbeigi, Abram Hindle, Padma Kaul, Russell Greiner
arXiv:2607. 07683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely used tests for diagnosing cardiovascular disease.
By Shreyasvi Natraj, Cyrus Achtari, Felice Gragnano, Andrea Milzi, Marco Valgimigli, Diego Paez-Granados
The paper introduces Curriculum‑Aware Interpolate‑then‑Refine (CAIR), a two‑stage framework for imputing physiological time‑series data. CAIR first learns a coarse base curve with a bidirectional‑GRU interpolator and then refines it through three Transformer passes, trained under a random‑gap curriculum that mimics realistic missingness. Evaluations on continuous glucose monitoring and arterial pressure datasets show CAIR outperforms all baselines across MCAR, MAR, and NMAR mechanisms, especially for long gaps and value‑dependent dropout, while also preserving clinically relevant burden metrics.
By Yu-Chao Huang, Haochen Zhang, Nicholas Konz, Tianlong Chen
arXiv:2608.30367v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Transformer-based electrocardiogram (ECG) models commonly tokenize waveforms into fixed temporal patches. Though convenient, fixed patching can split h...
By Ahmed Sameh, Nolan Wilson, Max Enderlein, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
arXiv:2608. 03597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with increased risks of stroke, heart failure, and mortality.
By Amirhossein Taleshinosrati, Yangyang Wang, Atitaya Phoemsuk, Vahid Abolghasemi, Naser Hossein Motlagh, Sadasivan Puthusserypady, Daniel Teichmann, Abdolrahman Peimankar
The study demonstrates that contrastive pre‑training of ECG representations using cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging data can enhance ECG‑based detection of Chagas disease. By aligning an ECG encoder with a CMR embedding space from 63,193 paired UK Biobank examinations, the authors achieved higher AUROC and sensitivity metrics on CODE‑15%, SaMi‑Trop, and PhysioNet/CinC 2025 Challenge datasets compared to an unaligned baseline. The approach shows that imaging‑supervised ECG representations generalize across different populations and resource‑constrained settings.
By Laura Alvarez-Florez, Daniel Uyterlinde, Samuel Ruip\'erez-Campillo, Lukas P. A. Arts, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Fleur V. Y. Tjong