ECG-Expert-QA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Large Language Models in Heart Disease Diagnosis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17475v3
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:59:44 GMT
• Title: ECG-Expert-QA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Large Language Models in Heart Disease Diagnosis
• Authors: Xu Wang, Jiaju Kang, Puyu Han, Yubao Zhao, Qian Liu, Liwenfei He, Lingqiong Zhang, Lingyun Dai, Yongcheng Wang, Jie Tao,
• Abstract summary: ECG-Expert-QA is a comprehensive dataset for evaluating diagnostic capabilities in electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation.<n>It combines real-world clinical ECG data with systematically generated synthetic cases, covering 12 essential diagnostic tasks.<n>Key innovation is the support for multi-turn dialogues, enabling the development of conversational medical AI systems.
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• Abstract: We present ECG-Expert-QA, a comprehensive multimodal dataset for evaluating diagnostic capabilities in electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation. It combines real-world clinical ECG data with systematically generated synthetic cases, covering 12 essential diagnostic tasks and totaling 47,211 expert-validated QA pairs. These encompass diverse clinical scenarios, from basic rhythm recognition to complex diagnoses involving rare conditions and temporal changes. A key innovation is the support for multi-turn dialogues, enabling the development of conversational medical AI systems that emulate clinician-patient or interprofessional interactions. This allows for more realistic assessment of AI models' clinical reasoning, diagnostic accuracy, and knowledge integration. Constructed through a knowledge-guided framework with strict quality control, ECG-Expert-QA ensures linguistic and clinical consistency, making it a high-quality resource for advancing AI-assisted ECG interpretation. It challenges models with tasks like identifying subtle ischemic changes and interpreting complex arrhythmias in context-rich scenarios. To promote research transparency and collaboration, the dataset, accompanying code, and prompts are publicly released at https://github.com/Zaozzz/ECG-Expert-QA

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