arXiv AI

How does downsampling affect needle electromyography signals? A generalisable workflow for understanding downsampling effects on high-frequency time series

arXiv:2601. 10191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated analysis of needle electromyography (nEMG) signals is emerging as a tool to support the detection of neuromuscular diseases (NMDs), yet the signals' high and heterogeneous sampling rates pose substantial computational challenges for feature-based machine-learning models, particularly for near real-time analysis.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Lightweight Test-Time Adaptation for EMG-Based Gesture Recognition

arXiv:2601. 04181v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable long-term decoding of gestures from surface electromyography (EMG) is hindered by signal drift caused by electrode displacement, muscle fatigue, and/or posture changes.

By Nia Touko, Matthew O A Ellis, Cristiano Capone, Alessio Burrello, Elisa Donati, Luca Manneschi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Prism-SQA: An Interpretable and Adaptable Neural Framework for Surface Electromyography Quality Assessment

Prism‑SQA is a neural framework that interprets surface electromyography (sEMG) quality assessment by separating each signal into a clean component and five contaminant-specific components using a U‑Net with bidirectional LSTM. Each contaminant is verified against canonical physiological signatures, allowing clinicians to see how specific noises affect quality. The resulting quality indices can be customized for different clinical contexts without retraining, and Prism‑SQA matches or surpasses current black‑box methods on both continuous and binary quality tasks.

By Kuan-Chen Wang, Kai-Chun Liu, Ping-Cheng Yeh, Sheng-Yu Peng, Yu Tsao
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

A Dataset and Benchmarks for Atrial Fibrillation Detection from Electrocardiograms of Intensive Care Unit Patients

The paper presents a new labelled ICU dataset and benchmarks for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) from electrocardiograms (ECGs). It compares three AI approaches—feature‑based classifiers, deep learning, and ECG foundation models—across Canadian ICU data and the 2021 PhysioNet challenge, finding that ECG foundation models with transfer learning achieve the highest F1 score (0.89). The study demonstrates the feasibility of automated AF monitoring in ICU settings and provides resources for further research.

By Sarah Nassar, Nooshin Maghsoodi, Sophia Mannina, Shamel Addas, Stephanie Sibley, Gabor Fichtinger, David Pichora, David Maslove, Purang Abolmaesumi, Parvin Mousavi
arXiv AI
Jun 19

SL-S4Wave: Self-Supervised Learning of Physiological Waveforms with Structured State Space Models

arXiv:2606. 19888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling long-sequence medical time series data, such as electrocardiograms (ECG), poses significant challenges due to high sampling rates, multichannel signal complexity, inherent noise, and limited labeled data.

By Feng Wu, Harsh Deep, Eric Lehman, Sanyam Kapoor, Guoshuai Zhao, Rahul Krishnan, Gari Clifford, Li-wei H Lehman
arXiv AI
Aug 5

FOUND-AF: Benchmarking ECG Foundation Models for Atrial Fibrillation Detection

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
arXiv AI
Jun 29

Applicability of memorization indicators for early spotting of overfitting while recalibrating sEMG-decoders on low sample sizes

arXiv:2606. 27855v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models for surface electromyography (sEMG) can benefit substantially from subject-specific (re-)calibration, since no sufficiently large and diverse datasets are available to train fully generic decoders.

By Stephan J. Lehmler, Tobias Glasmachers, Ioannis Iossifidis