无需补零,一模型适配任意导联数,让智能穿戴设备心电诊断更准
LAEF: A Lead-Agnostic ECG Foundation Model Towards Point-of-Care Diagnostics

- 用可变大小图结构建模心电波形,自动适应不同导联数量
- 在1-2导联下17/18数据集表现优于传统方法,平均准确率提升3.2点
- 适合可穿戴设备等端侧心电诊断,尤其适用于导联受限场景
智能手表和便携式心电设备通常只采集1-2个导联,但现有心电基础模型受限于固定12导联输入结构,在导联减少时性能下降甚至失效。我们提出LAEF(无导联依赖心电基础模型),一个700万参数的模型,可原生处理任意导联子集,无需补零或修改架构。LAEF将心电图表示为具有生理驱动的导联内与导联间连接的可变尺寸时空图,通过图注意力网络自然扩展至不同导联数量。在920万条12导联心电图上通过掩码节点建模与随机导联采样进行预训练,学习对导联配置鲁棒的表征。在18个下游数据集上,当导联完整时,其表现与专用12导联基线相当,且仅需其1/12的数据量;在1-2导联的端侧诊断场景中,使用单导联时在17/18数据集上超越所有补零替代方案,双导联时在14/18数据集上领先,平均AUROC提升3.2点。表征分析表明优势源于架构的无导联依赖性,跨164种心血管疾病的导联重要性研究显示,单标准导联输入下的群体性能稳定,并保留了已知的临床导联-疾病关联。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Point-of-care cardiac devices such as smartwatches and handheld ECG recorders typically capture 1--2 leads, yet existing ECG foundation models are architecturally constrained to fixed 12-lead inputs, degrading or failing under these reduced configurations. We introduce LAEF (Lead-Agnostic ECG Foundation), a 7M-parameter ECG foundation model that can natively process any lead subset without zero-padding or architectural modification. LAEF represents ECGs as variable-size spatiotemporal graphs with physiologically motivated intra- and inter-lead connectivity, processed by a Graph Attention Network that scales naturally with active lead count.Pre-trained on 9.2M 12-lead ECGs via masked node modelling with stochastic lead sampling, LAEF learns representations robust to lead configuration. Across 18 downstream datasets, LAEF is on par with specialized 12-lead baselines over 12$\times$ larger at full lead availability. Under direct point-of-care-oriented diagnostics (1--2 leads), it outperforms all zero-padded alternatives on 17 out of 18 datasets with with a single randomly sampled lead and on 14 out of 18 with 2 leads, with an average AUROC gain of +3.2 points. Representation analysis links this advantage to architectural lead-agnosticism, and a lead-importance study across 164 cardiovascular conditions shows population-level performance is stable across single standard input leads while still recovering established clinically lead-condition associations.
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