BenchECG and xECG: a benchmark and baseline for ECG foundation models (xLSTM)
Lunelli, Nicolson (equal contribution), Pröll, Reinstadler, Bauer, Dlaska (Digital Cardiology Lab, Medical University of Innsbruck)
npj Digital Medicine· 2025
Reported benchmarks
AFib / arrhythmia
Stanford wrist PPG AF (DeepBeat) · AUROC ↑
#1 of 2
0.883
DeepBeat wrist-PPG AF, full finetune, 5-run mean ±0.019 (npj 2026 BenchECG); same protocol ECGFounder 0.846, ECG-CPC 0.832
AFib / arrhythmia
Stanford wrist PPG AF (DeepBeat) · AUROC ↑
#2 of 2
0.751
Frozen ECG-pretrained encoder on wrist PPG, 5-run mean ±0.013
Updated: Oct 8, 2026