用解释质量筛选关键样本,提升心电图分类效率与可靠性
Using Explainability as a Training-Time Reliability Signal for Efficient ECG Classification

- 基于梯度加权类激活映射(Grad-CAM)构建关注度评分,识别有意义的预测依据
- 在三个心电图数据集上,宏平均F1提升且有效训练成本降低
- 适合资源有限但需高可靠性的临床时序模型开发场景
为降低临床时序分析中深度神经网络的训练成本,本文提出基于可解释性的高效心电图分类方法ERTS。该方法在渐进式数据选择基础上,利用Grad-CAM生成注意力图,计算样本的关注度得分以判断模型预测是否具有连贯且局部化的支持模式。低关注度样本被过滤,高关注度样本优先参与梯度更新。在三个ECG数据集及多种主干网络上验证,ERTS在保持甚至提升宏平均F1的同时,显著减少有效训练成本。结果表明,解释质量可作为提升临床时序学习效率与可靠性的实用信号。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Training deep neural networks for clinical time-series analysis is computationally demanding, yet many healthcare settings lack the resources required for repeated model development and deployment. This challenge is particularly evident in electrocardiogram classification, where large datasets and long training schedules make efficiency practically important. Progressive Data Dropout reduces training cost by excluding samples from gradient updates once they are learned, but it relies on model confidence and may retain samples that are difficult due to noise or ambiguity rather than useful signal. In this work, we introduce ERTS, an explainability-based reliability training signal for efficient ECG classification. ERTS uses explanation quality during training to distinguish between informative and unreliable uncertainty. Building on progressive data selection, we compute Grad-CAM attention maps for candidate samples and derive a focus score that measures whether model predictions are supported by coherent and localised patterns. Samples with low focus are filtered out, while those with meaningful attention are prioritised for gradient updates. We evaluate ERTS across three ECG datasets and multiple backbone architectures, showing consistent improvements in macro-F1 alongside reduced effective training cost. These results suggest that explanation quality can serve as a practical signal for improving both efficiency and reliability in clinical time-series learning. Code will be released.
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