Summary of Electrocardiogram-language Model For Few-shot Question Answering with Meta Learning, by Jialu Tang et al.
Electrocardiogram-Language Model for Few-Shot Question Answering with Meta Learning
by Jialu Tang, Tong Xia, Yuan Lu, Cecilia Mascolo, Aaqib Saeed
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a novel multimodal meta-learning method for few-shot electrocardiogram (ECG) question answering. The approach integrates a pre-trained ECG encoder with a frozen large language model (LLM) via a trainable fusion module, enabling the LLM to reason about ECG data and generate clinically meaningful answers. The method leverages the rich knowledge encoded within LLMs, addressing the challenge of limited labeled ECG data while achieving superior generalization to unseen diagnostic tasks compared to supervised baselines. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps doctors interpret electrocardiograms (ECG) better by combining two things: ECG signals and natural language. Right now, it’s hard for computers to understand both parts because there isn’t enough labeled ECG data. This new way of doing things uses a special kind of computer program called a large language model to help make sense of the ECG data. It works even when there’s not much data available! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Encoder » Few shot » Generalization » Large language model » Meta learning » Question answering » Supervised
