arXiv AI September 10, 2026 By Laura Alvarez-Florez, Daniel Uyterlinde, Samuel Ruip\'erez-Campillo, Lukas P. A. Arts, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Fleur V. Y. Tjong

Leveraging Cardiac Imaging to Improve ECG-Based Detection of Chagas Disease in Resource-Constrained Settings

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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.

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