Learning Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis from Electrocardiogram Data
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The electrocardiogram (ECG) records the electrical activity of a patient’s heart movement. It is one of the standard routine healthcare tests as it is non-invasive and easy to apply. In this thesis, we analyze 2 million ECGs and over 260,000 patients’ health records from the Alberta Health Service, and propose frameworks for learning diagnostic and prognostic models based on supervised learning methods, including ones for survival prediction. First, we learned many models that each use a patient’s ECG to determine if s/he has a specific disease, corresponding to an ICD-10 diagnosis code. Our results show that these diagnosis models can accurately predict numerous health conditions, beyond cardiovascular conditions. Second, we develop ECG diagnosis models for COVID-19 and then use transfer learning to produce models with superior performance. Finally, motivated by the evidence from earlier tasks, we develop binary classification ECG models for predicting all-cause (fixed time) mortality for hospitalized (resp., emergency) patients, and also survival models that produce meaningful survival predictions for each patient. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance for predicting the time-until-death by using machine learning techniques that first re-express each ECG in latent representations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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