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Abstract:Transthoracic echocardiography is the reference standard for confirming structural heart disease (SHD), but first-line screening is limited by cost, workflow burden, and specialist availability. We evaluated whether open pretrained electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models can support echo-confirmed multi-label SHD detection using the public EchoNext Mini-Model benchmark. Six echocardiography-derived abnormalities were targeted: reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, increased left ventricular wall thickness, aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, and right ventricular systolic dysfunction. Under a common pipeline, we compared engineered ECG features with gradient boosting, end-to-end waveform learning from scratch, and transfer from open ECG foundation models. We then applied in-domain self-supervised adaptation of an ECG foundation model (ECG-FM) on EchoNext waveforms followed by selective supervised fine-tuning, and evaluated trade-offs between discrimination and adaptation cost. Adapted ECG-FM models achieved the best overall performance: peak macro-AUROC 0.8509 and macro-AUPRC 0.4297, while a parameter-efficient operating point preserved AUROC (0.8501) and attained the highest fixed-threshold macro-F1 0.3691. Late fusion with covariates did not improve threshold-independent discrimination, and evaluated LoRA, alternative backbones, and mixture-of-foundations strategies did not surpass the best adapted single-backbone models. These results indicate that for ECG-based case finding and echocardiography triage, combining target-domain self-supervised adaptation with selective supervised updating of a pretrained ECG backbone is the most effective transfer strategy.
| Comments: | Accepted to Canadian AI 2026 |
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2604.23385 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2604.23385v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.23385 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
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