Wolff-Parkinson-White Detection at 471:1 Class Imbalance: A Leakage-Controlled Study of the Data Bottleneck

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14633v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:57:46 GMT
• Title: Wolff-Parkinson-White Detection at 471:1 Class Imbalance: A Leakage-Controlled Study of the Data Bottleneck
• Abstract summary: Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a congenital cardiac pre-excitation, clinically important and often missed on the resting 12-lead ECG.<n>We pool two public 12-lead corpora, PTB-XL and Chapman-Shaoxing-Ningbo: 66,951 recordings, 142 of them WPW, a prevalence of 0.21% (about 471:1).<n>Under one pre-specified, leakage-controlled protocol, with a held-out fold contacted exactly once, we compare seven representations of the signal, holding the split and the evaluation fixed.
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• Abstract: Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is a congenital cardiac pre-excitation, clinically important and often missed on the resting 12-lead ECG. Detection is hard: the signature is subtle and the condition rare. We pool two public 12-lead corpora, PTB-XL and Chapman-Shaoxing-Ningbo: 66,951 recordings, 142 of them WPW, a prevalence of 0.21% (about 471:1). Under one pre-specified, leakage-controlled protocol, with a held-out fold contacted exactly once, we compare seven representations of the signal, holding the split and the evaluation fixed. Within these corpora and under a modest compute budget, added diversity and capacity do not raise the ceiling: the most orthogonal detector significantly hurts, a feature-union model matches a two-member vote, a convolutional network reaches the wavelet detector without exceeding it, and self-supervised pretraining fails a pre-specified gate. A leak-free learning curve, re-selecting features at every size, still rises at the full 115 positives for the strongest deployed detector (paired 90-to-100% difference +0.027, 95% CI [0.019, 0.033]), so it is not shown to have saturated. An error analysis tested against independent evidence finds that the missed cases have a narrower QRS, confirmed by an on-machine measurement outside our pipeline after we show the sign of this effect depends on which delineator measures it; that uncertain labels show no enrichment among the misses; and that some apparent false positives are recordings the corpus itself codes as pre-excited, placing part of the label problem in the negative class. We measure the optimism of non-nested selection at 0.11 to 0.13 average precision. The deployed output is a percentile rank in a frozen reference distribution, not a probability. On the held-out fold, on 14 positives, it reaches an average precision of 0.595 and an ROC area of 0.950. It is a screening pre-filter, not a diagnostic tool.

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