arXiv:2509.10491eess.SPcs.LG2025-09被引 3

用流匹配替代扩散过程,10-25次计算即可生成高质量心电图。

FlowECG: Using Flow Matching to Create a More Efficient ECG Signal Generator

  • 采用流匹配直接学习噪声到真实数据的连续路径
  • 仅需10-25次评估即达扩散模型200次效果
  • 适合资源受限的临床实时生成场景

合成心电图生成支持医疗AI中隐私保护的数据共享与训练集扩充。现有基于扩散的方法虽生成质量高,但采样需数百次神经网络评估,成为临床部署的计算瓶颈。本文提出FlowECG,通过将SSSD-ECG架构中的迭代扩散过程替换为连续流动力学,利用流匹配直接求解常微分方程以学习从噪声到数据分布的传输路径。在PTB-XL数据集上,采用动态时间归一化、Wasserstein距离、最大均值差异和频谱相似性进行评估。FlowECG在200次神经函数评估下达到SSSD-ECG性能,且在三项指标上表现更优。关键发现:其可在10-25次评估下保持生成质量,相较扩散方法减少一个数量级的计算开销,同时保留12导联心电图的生理真实性特征。该方法支持资源受限临床环境中实时生成或大规模合成数据的应用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Synthetic electrocardiogram generation serves medical AI applications requiring privacy-preserving data sharing and training dataset augmentation. Current diffusion-based methods achieve high generation quality but require hundreds of neural network evaluations during sampling, creating computational bottlenecks for clinical deployment. We propose FlowECG, a flow matching approach that adapts the SSSD-ECG architecture by replacing the iterative diffusion process with continuous flow dynamics. Flow matching learns direct transport paths from noise to data distributions through ordinary differential equation solving. We evaluate our method on the PTB-XL dataset using Dynamic Time Warping, Wasserstein distance, Maximum Mean Discrepancy, and spectral similarity metrics. FlowECG matches SSSD-ECG performance at 200 neural function evaluations, outperforming the baseline on three metrics. The key finding shows that FlowECG maintains generation quality with substantially fewer sampling steps, achieving comparable results with 10-25 evaluations compared to 200 for diffusion methods. This efficiency improvement reduces computational requirements by an order of magnitude while preserving physiologically realistic 12-lead ECG characteristics. The approach enables practical deployment in resource-limited clinical settings where real-time generation or large-scale synthetic data creation is needed.

心电图生成流匹配高效生成临床应用

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