Biometric Contrastive Learning for Data-Efficient Deep Learning from Electrocardiographic Images.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Artificial intelligence (AI) detects heart disease from images of electrocardiograms (ECGs), however traditional supervised learning is limited by the need for large amounts of labeled data. We report the development of Biometric Contrastive Learning (BCL), a self-supervised pretraining approach for label-efficient deep learning on ECG images.

Materials and methods

Using pairs of ECGs from 78,288 individuals from Yale (2000-2015), we trained a convolutional neural network to identify temporally-separated ECG pairs that varied in layouts from the same patient. We fine-tuned BCL-pretrained models to detect atrial fibrillation (AF), gender, and LVEF<40%, using ECGs from 2015-2021. We externally tested the models in cohorts from Germany and the US. We compared BCL with

SUBMITTER: Sangha V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10516080 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature