Montreal Heart Institute (HeartWise.AI) (Avram et al.)
Self-supervised EfficientNetV2-based 12-lead ECG foundation model pretrained via contrastive learning and masked-lead modeling on 1.9 million ECGs (Montreal Heart Institute plus CODE-15% and MIMIC-IV), then fine-tuned for the same 77-condition ECG interpretation task and digital-biomarker extraction as DeepECG-SL. Outperforms the supervised counterpart on label-scarce digital-biomarker tasks, with the largest gains on LQTS genotype classification (AUROC 0.931 vs. 0.850, n=127 ECGs) and 5-year atrial-fibrillation risk (AUROC 0.742 vs. 0.734, n=132,050 ECGs), and outperforms ECG-FM and ECGFounder on shared external diagnostic classes.
Architecture
CNN (2D)
EfficientNetV2 2D-CNN backbone pretrained via self-supervised contrastive learning + masked-lead modeling on 12-lead ECG, then fine-tuned per downstream task (77-class interpretation, LVEF, AF risk, LQTS)
Framework
PyTorch
Added to catalog
2026-08-10
Publicly available 15% subset of the CODE (Clinical Outcomes in Digital Electrocardiology) dataset from the Telehealth Network of Minas Gerais; full CODE dataset (>2 million exams) is request-only.
DeepECG Multi-Site External Validation Cohort
Aggregate of 11 geographically diverse external validation cohorts totaling 881,403 ECGs: four public datasets (UK Biobank, Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging [CLSA], MIMIC-IV, PTB) and seven private health-system datasets (UCSF, MGH, Cedars-Sinai, JGH, UW, NYP, CHUM).
800,035 12-lead ECG-report pairs from 161,352 subjects at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Montreal Heart Institute ECG Database (MHI-ds)
Over 1,000,000 12-lead ECGs from 184,210 patients treated at the Montreal Heart Institute, with automated free-text extraction of 77 AHA-derived diagnostic labels from ECG reports; primary training data for DeepECG-SL and part of the DeepECG-SSL pretraining corpus.
Multi-label 12-lead ECG interpretation across 77 AHA-derived cardiac conditions
Reduced LVEF (<=40%) classification from 12-lead ECG
5-year atrial fibrillation risk prediction from 12-lead ECG
Long QT syndrome (LQTS) detection from 12-lead ECG
Long QT syndrome (LQTS) genotype classification from 12-lead ECG