arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

Beat-Synchronous Tokenization for ECG Transformers

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 Machine Learning
6d ago

TransECG-SSL: Hybrid Self-Supervised Representation Learning for ECG Arrhythmia Classification

TransECG-SSL is a self‑supervised framework that learns transferable heartbeat representations from unlabelled ECG data using a Transformer encoder pretrained with a hybrid objective of masked signal reconstruction and contrastive learning. The pretrained model is frozen and evaluated via linear probing on patient‑disjoint splits across three public ECG databases, showing that Hybrid SSL outperforms randomly initialized Transformers and source‑supervised pretraining. While cross‑dataset transfer improves performance over random baselines, it still falls short of target‑specific self‑supervised pretraining, and minority arrhythmia classes remain difficult under severe class imbalance.

By Ahtisham Ayyub, Fasih Haider, Muhammad Rehan Usman, Saturnino Luz, Christos Politis, Muhammad Arslan Usman
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 12

ECGWmark: Deep Watermarking for Electrocardiogram Signals

ECGWmark is a fully convolutional, quantization‑free deep watermarking framework designed for electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. It embeds patient metadata into ECGs while preserving high‑frequency diagnostic details by operating in a continuous latent space and using a localized frame‑level mechanism to resist severe temporal desynchronization. A differentiable Physiological Loss guided by a clinical classifier helps maintain diagnostic semantics, achieving over 90% channel‑bit extraction accuracy under circular phase shifts and demonstrating mixed effects on class‑level diagnostic metrics in the MIT‑BIH benchmark.

By Kuan-Yu Chen, Kuan-Chen Wang, Yu Tsao, Jian-Jiun Ding