Title: Nef-Net+: Adapting Electrocardio Panorama in the wild
Primary area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities
Keywords: ECG representation, Cardiac Diagnosis

Abstract: Conventional multi-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) systems capture cardiac signals from a fixed set of anatomical viewpoints defined by lead placement. However, certain cardiac conditions (e.g. Brugada syndrome) require additional, non-standard viewpoints to reveal diagnostically critical patterns that may be absent in standard leads. To systematically overcome this limitation, Nef-Net was recently introduced to reconstruct a continuous electrocardiac field, enabling virtual observation of ECG signals from arbitrary views (termed Electrocardio Panorama).  Despite its promise, Nef-Net operates under idealized assumptions and faces in-the-wild challenges, such as long-duration ECG modeling, robustness to device-specific signal artifacts, and suboptimal lead placement calibration.
This paper presents Nef-Net+, an enhanced framework for realistic panoramic ECG synthesis that supports arbitrary-length signal synthesis from any desired view, generalizes across ECG devices, and compensates for operator-induced deviations in electrode placement. These capabilities are enabled by a newly designed model architecture that performs direct view transformation, incorporating a workflow comprising offline pretraining, device calibration tuning steps as well as an on-the-fly calibration step for patient-specific adaptation. To rigorously evaluate panoramic ECG synthesis, we construct a new Electrocardio Panorama benchmark, called Panobench, comprising 9369 recordings with 48-view per subject, capturing the full spatial variability of cardiac electrical activity. Experimental results show that Nef-Net+ delivers substantial improvements over Nef-Net, yielding an increase of around 6 dB in PSNR in real-world setting.

TL;DR: An enhanced variant of Nef-Net to generate panoramic ECG views, including previously unseen views.