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Hauptverfasser: Qin, Zehao, Lin, Xiaojian, Zhang, Ping, Wu, Hongliang, Wang, Xinkang, Liu, Guangling, Chen, Bo, Yang, Wenming, Wang, Guijin
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Qin, Zehao
Lin, Xiaojian
Zhang, Ping
Wu, Hongliang
Wang, Xinkang
Liu, Guangling
Chen, Bo
Yang, Wenming
Wang, Guijin
author_facet Qin, Zehao
Lin, Xiaojian
Zhang, Ping
Wu, Hongliang
Wang, Xinkang
Liu, Guangling
Chen, Bo
Yang, Wenming
Wang, Guijin
contents Accurate interpretation of electrocardiogram (ECG) remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled data and the high cost of expert annotation. Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a promising solution by enabling models to learn expressive representations from unlabeled signals. Existing ECG SSL methods typically rely on either contrastive learning or reconstructive learning. However, each approach in isolation provides limited supervisory signals and suffers from additional limitations, including non-physiological distortions introduced by naive augmentations and trivial correlations across multiple leads that models may exploit as shortcuts. In this work, we propose CoRe-ECG, a unified contrastive and reconstructive pretraining paradigm that establishes a synergistic interaction between global semantic modeling and local structural learning. CoRe-ECG aligns global representations during reconstruction, enabling instance-level discriminative signals to guide local waveform recovery. To further enhance pretraining, we introduce Frequency Dynamic Augmentation (FDA) to adaptively perturb ECG signals based on their frequency-domain importance, and Spatio-Temporal Dual Masking (STDM) to break linear dependencies across leads, increasing the difficulty of reconstructive tasks. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple downstream ECG datasets. Ablation studies further demonstrate the necessity and complementarity of each component. This approach provides a robust and physiologically meaningful representation learning framework for ECG analysis.
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spellingShingle CoRe-ECG: Advancing Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 12-Lead ECG via Contrastive and Reconstructive Synergy
Qin, Zehao
Lin, Xiaojian
Zhang, Ping
Wu, Hongliang
Wang, Xinkang
Liu, Guangling
Chen, Bo
Yang, Wenming
Wang, Guijin
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Accurate interpretation of electrocardiogram (ECG) remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled data and the high cost of expert annotation. Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers a promising solution by enabling models to learn expressive representations from unlabeled signals. Existing ECG SSL methods typically rely on either contrastive learning or reconstructive learning. However, each approach in isolation provides limited supervisory signals and suffers from additional limitations, including non-physiological distortions introduced by naive augmentations and trivial correlations across multiple leads that models may exploit as shortcuts. In this work, we propose CoRe-ECG, a unified contrastive and reconstructive pretraining paradigm that establishes a synergistic interaction between global semantic modeling and local structural learning. CoRe-ECG aligns global representations during reconstruction, enabling instance-level discriminative signals to guide local waveform recovery. To further enhance pretraining, we introduce Frequency Dynamic Augmentation (FDA) to adaptively perturb ECG signals based on their frequency-domain importance, and Spatio-Temporal Dual Masking (STDM) to break linear dependencies across leads, increasing the difficulty of reconstructive tasks. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple downstream ECG datasets. Ablation studies further demonstrate the necessity and complementarity of each component. This approach provides a robust and physiologically meaningful representation learning framework for ECG analysis.
title CoRe-ECG: Advancing Self-Supervised Representation Learning for 12-Lead ECG via Contrastive and Reconstructive Synergy
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11359