Biomarker-Based Pretraining for Chagas Disease Screening in Electrocardiograms
arXiv cs.CV / 4/14/2026
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Key Points
- The paper proposes biomarker-based pretraining to improve ECG-based Chagas disease screening when existing datasets have scarce and noisy labels.
- An ECG feature extractor is first pretrained on MIMIC-IV-ECG to predict percentile-binned blood biomarkers, and then fine-tuned on Brazilian datasets for Chagas detection.
- Using a 5-model ensemble, the authors report a challenge score of 0.269 on the hidden test set, placing 5th in the 2025 George B. Moody PhysioNet Challenge for Chagas detection.
- The work includes released code and a model on GitHub, enabling replication and further experimentation by other researchers.
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