Extending Pretrained 10-Second ECG Foundation Models to Longer Horizons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16975v1
• Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 12:52:23 GMT
• Title: Extending Pretrained 10-Second ECG Foundation Models to Longer Horizons
• Abstract summary: Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models pretrained on typical diagnostic 10-second ECG segments have demonstrated strong transferability across a range of clinical applications.<n>We propose a parameter-efficient framework that extends pretrained ECG foundation models to longer and variable-length ECGs without retraining the backbone.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models pretrained on typical diagnostic 10-second ECG segments, have demonstrated strong transferability across a range of clinical applications. However, many real-world applications produce recordings that are typically longer, and are varied in duration during inference time. These 10-second models have no built-in way to combine information across time. Extending them to longer horizons introduces two challenges: structural incompatibilities arising from input-length disparities, and semantic challenges that limit meaningful temporal aggregation. We propose a parameter-efficient framework that extends pretrained ECG foundation models to longer and variable-length ECGs without retraining the backbone. Guided by a frozen pretrained 10-second model, we introduce a lightweight plug-in module that extends the model in two complementary ways: (i) structurally compatible long-sequence processing and (ii) semantically informed temporal modeling. Experiments on multiple long-horizon ECG tasks, datasets, and foundation model backbones demonstrate that our method enables robust long-horizon extension from pretrained snapshot models, consistently outperforming sliding-window and pooling-based baselines with strong parameter efficiency.

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