High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training
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| author | Huang, Zhuoyi Sahoo, Nutan Kumari, Anamika Kumar, Girish Cai, Kexuan Cao, Shixing Kang, Yue Xia, Tian Chatterjee, Somya Hausman, Nicholas Jay, Aidan Rosenthal, Eric S. Srinivasan, Soundar Hasan, Sadid Fedorov, Alex Vesal, Sulaiman |
| author_facet | Huang, Zhuoyi Sahoo, Nutan Kumari, Anamika Kumar, Girish Cai, Kexuan Cao, Shixing Kang, Yue Xia, Tian Chatterjee, Somya Hausman, Nicholas Jay, Aidan Rosenthal, Eric S. Srinivasan, Soundar Hasan, Sadid Fedorov, Alex Vesal, Sulaiman |
| contents | The development of machine learning for cardiac care is severely hampered by privacy restrictions on sharing real patient electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Although generative AI offers a promising solution, the real-world use of existing model-synthesized ECGs is limited by persistent gaps in trustworthiness and clinical utility. In this work, we address two major shortcomings of current generative ECG methods: insufficient morphological fidelity and the inability to generate personalized, patient-specific physiological signals. To address these gaps, we build on a conditional diffusion-based Structured State Space Model (SSSD-ECG) with two principled innovations: (1) MIDT-ECG (Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training), a novel training paradigm with time-frequency domain supervision to enforce physiological structural realism, and (2) multi-modal demographic conditioning to enable patient-specific synthesis. We comprehensively evaluate our approach on the PTB-XL dataset, assessing the synthesized ECG signals on fidelity, clinical coherence, privacy preservation, and downstream task utility. MIDT-ECG achieves substantial gains: it improves morphological coherence, preserves strong privacy guarantees with all metrics evaluated exceeding the baseline by 4-8%, and notably reduces the interlead correlation error by an average of 74%, while demographic conditioning enhances signal-to-noise ratio and personalization. In critical low-data regimes, a classifier trained on datasets supplemented with our synthetic ECGs achieves performance comparable to a classifier trained solely on real data. Together, we demonstrate that ECG synthesizers, trained with the proposed time-frequency structural regularization scheme, can serve as personalized, high-fidelity, privacy-preserving surrogates when real data are scarce, advancing the responsible use of generative AI in healthcare. |
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| spellingShingle | High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training Huang, Zhuoyi Sahoo, Nutan Kumari, Anamika Kumar, Girish Cai, Kexuan Cao, Shixing Kang, Yue Xia, Tian Chatterjee, Somya Hausman, Nicholas Jay, Aidan Rosenthal, Eric S. Srinivasan, Soundar Hasan, Sadid Fedorov, Alex Vesal, Sulaiman Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence The development of machine learning for cardiac care is severely hampered by privacy restrictions on sharing real patient electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Although generative AI offers a promising solution, the real-world use of existing model-synthesized ECGs is limited by persistent gaps in trustworthiness and clinical utility. In this work, we address two major shortcomings of current generative ECG methods: insufficient morphological fidelity and the inability to generate personalized, patient-specific physiological signals. To address these gaps, we build on a conditional diffusion-based Structured State Space Model (SSSD-ECG) with two principled innovations: (1) MIDT-ECG (Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training), a novel training paradigm with time-frequency domain supervision to enforce physiological structural realism, and (2) multi-modal demographic conditioning to enable patient-specific synthesis. We comprehensively evaluate our approach on the PTB-XL dataset, assessing the synthesized ECG signals on fidelity, clinical coherence, privacy preservation, and downstream task utility. MIDT-ECG achieves substantial gains: it improves morphological coherence, preserves strong privacy guarantees with all metrics evaluated exceeding the baseline by 4-8%, and notably reduces the interlead correlation error by an average of 74%, while demographic conditioning enhances signal-to-noise ratio and personalization. In critical low-data regimes, a classifier trained on datasets supplemented with our synthetic ECGs achieves performance comparable to a classifier trained solely on real data. Together, we demonstrate that ECG synthesizers, trained with the proposed time-frequency structural regularization scheme, can serve as personalized, high-fidelity, privacy-preserving surrogates when real data are scarce, advancing the responsible use of generative AI in healthcare. |
| title | High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05492 |