Parametric Scaling Effects on ECG Foundation Model Convergence and Performance in Mixed versus Pure Synthetic Pretraining

Abstract

Abstract: Disease diagnosis represents a critical and arduous endeavor within the medical field. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, spanning from machine learning and deep learning to large model paradigms, stand poised to significantly augment physicians in rendering more evidence-based decisions, thus presenting a pioneering solution for clinical practice. Traditionally, the amalgamation of diverse medical data modalities (e.g., image, text, speech, genetic data, physiological signals) is imperative to facilitate a comprehensive disease analysis, a topic of burgeoning interest among both researc

Research Question

How does parametric scaling affect the convergence speed and final performance of ECG foundation models when pretrained on mixed synthetic-real datasets versus pure synthetic data?

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