Validating the Clinical Utility of CineECG 3D Reconstructions through Cross-Modal Feature Attribution

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Main Authors: Dobiczek, Karol, Mozolewski, Maciej, Bobek, Szymon, Szafarczyk, Michał, van Dam, Peter, Nalepa, Grzegorz J.
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author Dobiczek, Karol
Mozolewski, Maciej
Bobek, Szymon
Szafarczyk, Michał
van Dam, Peter
Nalepa, Grzegorz J.
author_facet Dobiczek, Karol
Mozolewski, Maciej
Bobek, Szymon
Szafarczyk, Michał
van Dam, Peter
Nalepa, Grzegorz J.
contents Deep learning models for 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis achieve high diagnostic performance but lack the intuitive interpretability required for clinical integration. Standard feature attribution methods are limited by the inherent difficulty in mapping abstract waveform fluctuations to physical anatomical pathologies. To resolve this, we propose a cross-modal method that projects feature attributions from high-performance 12-lead ECG models onto the CineECG 3D anatomical space. Our study reveals that while models trained directly on CineECG signals suffer from reduced accuracy and incoherent attributions, the proposed mapping mechanism effectively recovers clinically relevant feature rankings. Validated against a ground-truth dataset of 20 cases annotated by domain experts, the mapped explanations yield a Dice score of 0.56, significantly outperforming the 0.47 baseline of standard 12-lead attributions. These findings indicate that cross-modal averaging mapping effectively filters attribution instability and improves the localization of pathological features, combining the diagnostic expressiveness of standard ECG with the intuitive clarity of anatomical visualization.
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spellingShingle Validating the Clinical Utility of CineECG 3D Reconstructions through Cross-Modal Feature Attribution
Dobiczek, Karol
Mozolewski, Maciej
Bobek, Szymon
Szafarczyk, Michał
van Dam, Peter
Nalepa, Grzegorz J.
Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
Deep learning models for 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis achieve high diagnostic performance but lack the intuitive interpretability required for clinical integration. Standard feature attribution methods are limited by the inherent difficulty in mapping abstract waveform fluctuations to physical anatomical pathologies. To resolve this, we propose a cross-modal method that projects feature attributions from high-performance 12-lead ECG models onto the CineECG 3D anatomical space. Our study reveals that while models trained directly on CineECG signals suffer from reduced accuracy and incoherent attributions, the proposed mapping mechanism effectively recovers clinically relevant feature rankings. Validated against a ground-truth dataset of 20 cases annotated by domain experts, the mapped explanations yield a Dice score of 0.56, significantly outperforming the 0.47 baseline of standard 12-lead attributions. These findings indicate that cross-modal averaging mapping effectively filters attribution instability and improves the localization of pathological features, combining the diagnostic expressiveness of standard ECG with the intuitive clarity of anatomical visualization.
title Validating the Clinical Utility of CineECG 3D Reconstructions through Cross-Modal Feature Attribution
topic Image and Video Processing
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27017