Teach Multimodal LLMs to Comprehend Electrocardiographic Images

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19008v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:26:41 GMT
• Title: Teach Multimodal LLMs to Comprehend Electrocardiographic Images
• Authors: Ruoqi Liu, Yuelin Bai, Xiang Yue, Ping Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce ECGInstruct, a comprehensive ECG image instruction tuning dataset of over one million samples. We also develop PULSE, an MLLM tailored for ECG image comprehension. Our experiments show that PULSE sets a new state-of-the-art, outperforming general MLLMs with an average accuracy improvement of 15% to 30%.
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• Abstract: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an essential non-invasive diagnostic tool for assessing cardiac conditions. Existing automatic interpretation methods suffer from limited generalizability, focusing on a narrow range of cardiac conditions, and typically depend on raw physiological signals, which may not be readily available in resource-limited settings where only printed or digital ECG images are accessible. Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) present promising opportunities for addressing these challenges. However, the application of MLLMs to ECG image interpretation remains challenging due to the lack of instruction tuning datasets and well-established ECG image benchmarks for quantitative evaluation. To address these challenges, we introduce ECGInstruct, a comprehensive ECG image instruction tuning dataset of over one million samples, covering a wide range of ECG-related tasks from diverse data sources. Using ECGInstruct, we develop PULSE, an MLLM tailored for ECG image comprehension. In addition, we curate ECGBench, a new evaluation benchmark covering four key ECG image interpretation tasks across nine different datasets. Our experiments show that PULSE sets a new state-of-the-art, outperforming general MLLMs with an average accuracy improvement of 15% to 30%. This work highlights the potential of PULSE to enhance ECG interpretation in clinical practice.

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