One Heart, Not Three Pipelines
TL;DR for operators Hospital AI systems rarely receive a standardized bundle of ECGs, echocardiograms, and chest X-rays. One patient may have ECG and CXR, another ECG and Echo, while each modality contains its own leads, views, frames, or images. The architectural question is whether these sources should remain in largely separate representation pipelines until downstream fusion, or whether they should learn from one another earlier. ...