CARMEN reads ten vital signals at once

🔥 What happened A Korean team unveiled CARMEN, a foundation model pretrained on ten cardiorespiratory waveforms – 2.27 million modality-hours, no labels. It handles any combination of co-recorded signals from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. 💡 Why it matters Prior physiological models leaned almost entirely on ECG and PPG. CARMEN beat supervised models on 12 of 15 tasks and three other foundation models on 14 to 17 of 19 – none outperformed it. Without its LSCNorm conditioning, intraoperative hypotension AUROC dropped from 0.894 to 0.780. ⚡ Our take One encoder for all vital signs could reshape OR and ICU monitoring. Anyone still building ECG-only models is either brave or badly informed.