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TAC-ECG: A task-adaptive classification method for electrocardiogram based on cross-modal contrastive learning and

Rongjia Wang¹, Xunde Dong¹, Xiuling Liu²

¹School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China.

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

|July 11, 2025

Summary

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This study introduces a flexible Task-Adaptive Classification for ECG (TAC-ECG) method. TAC-ECG efficiently adapts deep learning models for diverse electrocardiogram classification tasks with minimal retraining, reducing costs and improving clinical utility.

Keywords:

Contrastive learning Electrocardiogram Low-rank convolutional adapter Task-adaptive

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiology

Background:

Cardiovascular diseases pose significant human health risks.
Deep learning methods for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis show promise but often lack flexibility for new tasks.
Existing models require extensive retraining for different ECG classification applications, limiting clinical deployment.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a flexible and efficient deep learning framework for ECG classification.
To enable rapid adaptation of ECG analysis models to diverse clinical tasks.
To reduce the computational cost and resource requirements for multi-task ECG classification.

Main Methods:

Proposed Task-Adaptive Classification for ECG (TAC-ECG) using cross-modal contrastive learning and low-rank convolutional adapters.
Developed Contrastive ECG-Text Pre-training (CETP) to create a robust ECG encoder.
Integrated a frozen pre-trained ECG encoder with a lightweight Low-Rank Convolutional Adapter (LRC-Adapter) for task-specific adaptation, requiring only adapter training.

Main Results:

Evaluated on four datasets (CPSC2018, Cinc2017, PTB-XL, Chapman) for multi-category ECG classification.
Achieved highly competitive results with significantly fewer trainable parameters (approx. 3%) compared to fully fine-tuned methods.
Demonstrated the effectiveness and practicality of TAC-ECG across various network architectures and classification tasks.

Conclusions:

TAC-ECG provides a flexible and efficient approach for ECG classification.
The method allows for rapid adaptation to diverse tasks, enhancing clinical diagnostic practicality.
TAC-ECG reduces resource consumption and deployment costs in multi-tasking scenarios.