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Main Authors: Song, Junho, Jang, Jong-Hwan, Hong, DongGyun, Kwon, Joon-myoung, Jo, Yong-Yeon
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07110
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author Song, Junho
Jang, Jong-Hwan
Hong, DongGyun
Kwon, Joon-myoung
Jo, Yong-Yeon
author_facet Song, Junho
Jang, Jong-Hwan
Hong, DongGyun
Kwon, Joon-myoung
Jo, Yong-Yeon
contents Electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis remains challenging due to limited labeled data and the need to capture subtle yet clinically meaningful variations in rhythm and morphology. We present CREMA (Contrastive Regularized Masked Autoencoder), a foundation model for 12-lead ECGs designed to learn generalizable representations through self-supervised pretraining. CREMA combines generative learning and contrastive regularization via a Contrastive Regularized MAE loss, and employs a Signal Transformer (SiT) architecture to capture both local waveform details and global temporal dependencies. We evaluate CREMA on benchmark datasets and real-world clinical environments, including deployment scenarios with significant distribution shifts. CREMA outperforms supervised baselines and existing self-supervised models in both linear probing and fine-tuning evaluations. Notably, it maintains superior performance across diverse clinical domains, such as emergency care, highlighting its robustness under real-world conditions. These results demonstrate that CREMA serves as a scalable and reliable foundation model for ECG diagnostics, supporting downstream applications across heterogeneous and high-risk clinical settings.
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spellingShingle CREMA: A Contrastive Regularized Masked Autoencoder for Robust ECG Diagnostics across Clinical Domains
Song, Junho
Jang, Jong-Hwan
Hong, DongGyun
Kwon, Joon-myoung
Jo, Yong-Yeon
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
Electrocardiogram (ECG) diagnosis remains challenging due to limited labeled data and the need to capture subtle yet clinically meaningful variations in rhythm and morphology. We present CREMA (Contrastive Regularized Masked Autoencoder), a foundation model for 12-lead ECGs designed to learn generalizable representations through self-supervised pretraining. CREMA combines generative learning and contrastive regularization via a Contrastive Regularized MAE loss, and employs a Signal Transformer (SiT) architecture to capture both local waveform details and global temporal dependencies. We evaluate CREMA on benchmark datasets and real-world clinical environments, including deployment scenarios with significant distribution shifts. CREMA outperforms supervised baselines and existing self-supervised models in both linear probing and fine-tuning evaluations. Notably, it maintains superior performance across diverse clinical domains, such as emergency care, highlighting its robustness under real-world conditions. These results demonstrate that CREMA serves as a scalable and reliable foundation model for ECG diagnostics, supporting downstream applications across heterogeneous and high-risk clinical settings.
title CREMA: A Contrastive Regularized Masked Autoencoder for Robust ECG Diagnostics across Clinical Domains
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07110