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Main Authors: Wan, Zhijiang, Yu, Qianhao, Mao, Jia, Duan, Wenfeng, Ding, Cheng
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00711
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author Wan, Zhijiang
Yu, Qianhao
Mao, Jia
Duan, Wenfeng
Ding, Cheng
author_facet Wan, Zhijiang
Yu, Qianhao
Mao, Jia
Duan, Wenfeng
Ding, Cheng
contents This study introduces OpenECG, a large-scale benchmark of 1.2 million 12-lead ECG recordings from nine centers, to evaluate ECG foundation models (ECG-FMs) trained on public datasets. We investigate three self-supervised learning methods (SimCLR, BYOL, MAE) with ResNet-50 and Vision Transformer architectures, assessing model generalization through leave-one-dataset-out experiments and data scaling analysis. Results show that pre-training on diverse datasets significantly improves generalization, with BYOL and MAE outperforming SimCLR, highlighting the efficacy of feature-consistency and generative learning over contrastive approaches. Data scaling experiments reveal that performance saturates at 60-70% of total data for BYOL and MAE, while SimCLR requires more data. These findings demonstrate that publicly available ECG data can match or surpass proprietary datasets in training robust ECG-FMs, paving the way for scalable, clinically meaningful AI-driven ECG analysis.
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spellingShingle OpenECG: Benchmarking ECG Foundation Models with Public 1.2 Million Records
Wan, Zhijiang
Yu, Qianhao
Mao, Jia
Duan, Wenfeng
Ding, Cheng
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
This study introduces OpenECG, a large-scale benchmark of 1.2 million 12-lead ECG recordings from nine centers, to evaluate ECG foundation models (ECG-FMs) trained on public datasets. We investigate three self-supervised learning methods (SimCLR, BYOL, MAE) with ResNet-50 and Vision Transformer architectures, assessing model generalization through leave-one-dataset-out experiments and data scaling analysis. Results show that pre-training on diverse datasets significantly improves generalization, with BYOL and MAE outperforming SimCLR, highlighting the efficacy of feature-consistency and generative learning over contrastive approaches. Data scaling experiments reveal that performance saturates at 60-70% of total data for BYOL and MAE, while SimCLR requires more data. These findings demonstrate that publicly available ECG data can match or surpass proprietary datasets in training robust ECG-FMs, paving the way for scalable, clinically meaningful AI-driven ECG analysis.
title OpenECG: Benchmarking ECG Foundation Models with Public 1.2 Million Records
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00711