MEIT: Multimodal Electrocardiogram Instruction Tuning on Large Language Models for Report Generation (2025.findings-acl)
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Zhongwei Wan, Che Liu, Xin Wang, Chaofan Tao, Hui Shen, Jing Xiong, Rossella Arcucci, Huaxiu Yao, Mi Zhang
| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on classifying cardiac conditions using ECG data but have overlooked ECG report generation, which is time-consuming and requires clinical expertise. |
| Approach: | They propose a Multimodal ECG Instruction Tuning framework that extends the capability of large language models (LLMs) for the task. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms open-source LLMs and LLM backbones across two large-scale ECG datasets. |
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