arXiv:2605.25446cs.AIcs.LG2026-05

用心电图与报告对齐训练模型,可全面识别常见与罕见心脏疾病。

A Signal-Language Foundation Model for Broad-Spectrum Cardiovascular Assessment from Routine Electrocardiography

  • 通过心电图与诊断报告对比学习,构建信号-语言联合表征。
  • 在150万份心电图上验证,对房颤、心梗等89项任务表现优异。
  • 小样本训练即达高精度,适合临床筛查罕见心脏病。

心电图是心血管诊疗的核心,但传统AI模型仅限于常见心律失常,泛化能力差。我们提出ECGCLIP,一种基于心电图波形与专家诊断报告对齐的对比学习框架。该模型在132万余名患者的283万例心电图上预训练,并在内部测试集及九个独立外部队列(约150万例心电图)上评估,覆盖89项下游任务,包括45种心电图诊断、39项超声心动图目标和5种罕见心脏病,以PRAUC为主要评价指标。ECGCLIP在所有外部队列中均优于随机初始化和Merl-R18基线。在内部测试集上,ECGCLIP-R34对房颤(PRAUC 0.900)和心肌梗死(PRAUC 0.383)表现良好,且跨队列泛化性强。对于罕见病如埃布斯坦畸形(内部PRAUC 0.253)、缩窄性心包炎(0.175)、右位心(0.121)和心脏淀粉样变性(0.201),也显著提升诊断能力。模型具备数据高效性,仅需10%训练数据即可达到全数据基线性能。特征可视化与显著性分析显示,模型学习到的表示与经典心电图标准一致。结果表明,大规模心电图-报告对比预训练可将常规心电图解读扩展至更广泛的循环系统评估及超声和罕见疾病的机遇性筛查。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Electrocardiography (ECG) is central to cardiovascular care, but conventional AI models are often restricted to common arrhythmias and may generalize poorly across populations or clinically subtle diseases. We developed ECG Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (ECGCLIP), a signal-language contrastive learning framework that aligns ECG waveforms with expert diagnostic reports. ECGCLIP was pre-trained on 2,837,962 ECG studies from 1,324,856 patients and evaluated on a held-out internal test set plus nine independent external cohorts comprising about 1.5 million ECGs. Evaluation covered 89 downstream tasks, including 45 ECG diagnoses, 39 echocardiographic targets, and 5 rare cardiac diseases, using PRAUC as the primary metric. ECGCLIP consistently improved performance over random initialization and Merl-R18 baselines. On the internal test set, ECGCLIP-R34 achieved strong performance for atrial fibrillation (PRAUC 0.900) and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (PRAUC 0.383), with robust generalization across all external cohorts. It also improved low-prevalence and diagnostically elusive diseases, including Ebstein anomaly, constrictive pericarditis, dextrocardia, and cardiac amyloidosis, with internal PRAUC values of 0.253, 0.175, 0.121, and 0.201, respectively. ECGCLIP was data efficient, matching or exceeding full-dataset baseline performance with only 10% of training data. Feature visualization and saliency analysis suggested clinically meaningful representations aligned with established electrocardiographic criteria. These findings indicate that large-scale ECG-report contrastive pre-training can expand routine ECG interpretation beyond common arrhythmias toward broad cardiovascular assessment and opportunistic screening of echocardiographic and rare conditions.

心电图多任务罕见病对比学习

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