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Zhengxian Qu

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A Dynamic Parametric Simulator for Fetal Heart Sounds

Research on fetal phonocardiogram (fPCG) is challenged by the limited number of abdominal recordings, substantial maternal interference, and marked transmissioninduced signal attenuation that complicate reproducible benchmarking. We present a reproducible dynamic parametric simulator that generates long abdominal fPCG sequences by combining cycle-level fetal S1/S2 event synthesis with a convolutional transmission module and configurable interference and background noise. Model parameters are calibrated cyclewise from real abdominal recordings to capture beat-to-beat variability and to define data-driven admissible ranges for controllable synthesis. The generated signals are validated against real recordings in terms of envelope-based temporal structure and frequency-domain characteristics. The simulator is released as open software to support rapid, reproducible evaluation of fPCG processing methods under controlled acquisition conditions.

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Anchor-MoE: A Mean-Anchored Mixture of Experts For Probabilistic Regression

Regression under uncertainty is fundamental across science and engineering. We present an Anchored Mixture of Experts (Anchor-MoE), a model that handles both probabilistic and point regression. For simplicity, we use a tuned gradient-boosting model to furnish the anchor mean; however, any off-the-shelf point regressor can serve as the anchor. The anchor prediction is projected into a latent space, where a learnable metric-window kernel scores locality and a soft router dispatches each sample to a small set of mixture-density-network experts; the experts produce a heteroscedastic correction and predictive variance. We train by minimizing negative log-likelihood, and on a disjoint calibration split fit a post-hoc linear map on predicted means to improve point accuracy. On the theory side, assuming a Hölder smooth regression function of order~$α$ and fixed Lipschitz partition-of-unity weights with bounded overlap, we show that Anchor-MoE attains the minimax-optimal $L^2$ risk rate $O\!\big(N^{-2α/(2α+d)}\big)$. In addition, the CRPS test generalization gap scales as $\widetilde{O}\!\Big(\sqrt{(\log(Mh)+P+K)/N}\Big)$; it is logarithmic in $Mh$ and scales as the square root in $P$ and $K$. Under bounded-overlap routing, $K$ can be replaced by $k$, and any dependence on a latent dimension is absorbed into $P$. Under uniformly bounded means and variances, an analogous $\widetilde{O}\!\big(\sqrt{(\log(Mh)+P+K)/N}\big)$ scaling holds for the test NLL up to constants. Empirically, across standard UCI regressions, Anchor-MoE consistently matches or surpasses the strong NGBoost baseline in RMSE and NLL; on several datasets it achieves new state-of-the-art probabilistic regression results on our benchmark suite. Code is available at https://github.com/BaozhuoSU/Probabilistic_Regression.

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Enhanced ECG Arrhythmia Detection Accuracy by Optimizing Divergence-Based Data Fusion

AI computation in healthcare faces significant challenges when clinical datasets are limited and heterogeneous. Integrating datasets from multiple sources and different equipments is critical for effective AI computation but is complicated by their diversity, complexity, and lack of representativeness, so we often need to join multiple datasets for analysis. The currently used method is fusion after normalization. But when using this method, it can introduce redundant information, decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio and reducing classification accuracy. To tackle this issue, we propose a feature-based fusion algorithm utilizing Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Our approach involves initially preprocessing and continuous estimation on the extracted features, followed by employing the gradient descent method to identify the optimal linear parameters that minimize the KL divergence between the feature distributions. Using our in-house datasets consisting of ECG signals collected from 2000 healthy and 2000 diseased individuals by different equipments and verifying our method by using the publicly available PTB-XL dataset which contains 21,837 ECG recordings from 18,885 patients. We employ a Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LGBM) model to do the binary classification. The results demonstrate that the proposed fusion method significantly enhances feature-based classification accuracy for abnormal ECG cases in the merged datasets, compared to the normalization method. This data fusion strategy provides a new approach to process heterogeneous datasets for the optimal AI computation results.

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