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Prototype Learning to Create Refined Interpretable Digital Phenotypes from ECGs.

Sahil Sethi¹, David Chen², Michael C Burkhart²

¹Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL, USA2Center for Computational Medicine & Clinical AI, Section of Biomedical Data Science, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL, USA.

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Summary

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Prototype-based deep learning models can identify clinically relevant patterns in ECG data. These interpretable prototypes link physiological signals to specific patient diagnoses, enabling digital phenotyping.

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Informatics
Cardiology

Background:

Prototype-based neural networks offer interpretable predictions by learning representative signal patterns.
While promising for physiological data classification, their ability to capture broader clinical phenotypes is unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess if prototypes from a deep learning model trained on ECG data align with clinical phenotypes (phecodes) in an external database.
To evaluate the interpretability and clinical relevance of individual prototypes beyond standard classification.

Main Methods:

A prototype-based deep learning model was trained for multi-label ECG classification on the PTB-XL dataset.
The unmodified model was used for inference on the MIMIC-IV clinical database.

Associations between individual prototypes and hospital discharge diagnoses (phecodes) were analyzed.

Main Results:

Individual prototypes showed stronger, more specific associations with clinical outcomes than class predictions or NLP-extracted concepts.
Prototype classes with mixed significance patterns displayed greater intra-class distances, indicating differentiation of meaningful variations.
The model achieved high predictive performance for cardiac conditions (e.g., AUC 0.91 for heart failure) and showed signal for non-cardiac conditions like sepsis.

Conclusions:

Prototype-based models can facilitate interpretable digital phenotyping from physiological time-series data.
These models provide transferable intermediate phenotypes that capture clinically meaningful signatures beyond initial training objectives.
Prototypes offer a valuable tool for understanding the link between physiological signals and diverse clinical conditions.