用生理引导自监督学习,从无标签脉搏波信号筛查主动脉瓣疾病。
Aortic Valve Disease Screening from PPG via Physiology-Guided Self-Supervised Learning
- 基于临床波形特征生成伪标签,实现无标注数据的大规模预训练。
- 在小样本标注集上微调后,主动脉狭窄和反流的诊断准确率分别达0.8025和0.7669。
- 适合低资源环境下可穿戴设备用于心血管疾病早期筛查。
主动脉瓣疾病(AVD)是重大公共卫生负担,其诊断依赖超声心动图,受限于成本与专业人员,难以实现大规模筛查与风险分层。现有便携式传感技术受间接表征或采集依赖限制。光体积描记法(PPG)作为一种广泛可用的光学信号,可捕捉外周血流动力学变化,具备规模化潜力。然而,临床标注的PPG数据稀缺严重制约数据驱动模型发展。为此,本文提出生理引导自监督学习(PG-SSL),利用约17万条未标注的英国生物银行PPG数据。PG-SSL基于与主动脉狭窄(AS)和主动脉反流(AR)相关的临床启发波形表型构建生理伪标签,实现无需特定疾病标签的大规模预训练。在小规模标注队列上微调后,模型在AS和AR上的AUROC分别为0.8025和0.7669。进一步分析显示,模型在临床混杂因素下仍具稳健性,且与新发AVD事件存在显著纵向关联。本研究证明了在标注数据稀缺条件下,利用大规模未标注生理信号进行有效建模的可行性。该方法为低成本PPG基筛查与风险分层提供了可行策略。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Aortic valve disease (AVD) represents a major public health burden, while its diagnosis relies on echocardiography, which is limited by cost and specialist expertise, restricting scalable screening and risk stratification. Existing portable sensing modalities are constrained by indirect representations or acquisition dependencies. In this context, photoplethysmography (PPG), a widely available optical signal capturing peripheral hemodynamic dynamics, provides a scalable physiological measurement. However, the scarcity of clinically labeled PPG data severely constrains the development of effective data-driven models. To address this limitation, we propose Physiology-Guided Self-Supervised Learning (PG-SSL), leveraging approximately 170,000 unlabeled UK Biobank PPG recordings. PG-SSL constructs physiologically derived pseudo-labels based on clinically motivated waveform phenotypes associated with aortic stenosis (AS) and aortic regurgitation (AR), enabling large-scale pretraining without AVD-specific labels. Following fine-tuning on a small labeled cohort, the model achieved AUROCs of 0.8025 for AS and 0.7669 for AR. Further analyses demonstrated robustness under clinical confounding and covariate-balanced evaluation, as well as significant longitudinal associations with incident AVD events. This study demonstrates the feasibility of PG-SSL for leveraging large-scale unlabeled physiological signals under clinically labeled data-scarce conditions. The proposed approach provides a useful strategy for improving low-cost PPG-based screening and risk enrichment for clinically recognized AVD.
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