[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-a-field-guide-to-llms-reading-your-ecg-and-eeg-data":10,"sections":34},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":29,"feedback":33,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":33,"total_tokens":33},7314,"a-field-guide-to-llms-reading-your-ecg-and-eeg-data","A Field Guide to LLMs Reading Your ECG and EEG Data","A new review surveys how large language models are being adapted to interpret ECGs, EEGs, and other medical time series ahead of real-world clinical use.","A new review paper takes stock of how large language models are being pointed at medical time series data, and the results are promising, not production-ready.\n\nThe paper synthesizes recent research on using LLMs to analyze electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, photoplethysmography, and vital-sign recordings. It maps the model architectures, data resources, and processing pipelines researchers have tried, along with prompt-design strategies tuned for specific clinical scenarios. The authors then sort existing applications into buckets: diagnostic interpretation, automated report generation, longitudinal health monitoring, and synthetic physiological-signal generation. They also maintain a public GitHub list tracking new studies as they appear.\n\nWhat's notable is what the review admits it can't yet deliver: a consistent way to evaluate these systems. Unlike LLMs applied to clinical text, where benchmarks are relatively mature, MedTS work is still comparing apples to EKGs - different datasets, different metrics, different definitions of success. That gap matters more here than in most LLM applications, because a hallucinated summary of a doctor's note is embarrassing; a hallucinated read of a cardiac rhythm is dangerous.\n\nThe paper does not report a working clinical deployment. It is a map of a fast-growing but scattered field, useful mainly to researchers deciding where to point their next experiment - not to anyone shopping for a bedside monitor.","[\"ai\",\"healthcare\",\"llms\",\"medical-time-series\"]","2026-09-23T04:00:00.000Z","2026-09-23T06:57:12.542Z","2026-09-23T06:57:17.168Z","published",null,[],"ai",[24,26,27,28],"healthcare","llms","medical-time-series",[30],{"name":31,"url":32},"arXiv cs.AI","https:\u002F\u002Farxiv.org\u002Fabs\u002F2609.22262",0,{"sections":35},[36,39,43,48,53,58,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97],{"name":37,"slug":24,"count":38,"latest_published_at":18},"AI",4264,{"name":40,"slug":41,"count":42,"latest_published_at":18},"Security","security",707,{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"Policy","policy",369,"2026-09-23T02:13:52.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Deals","deals",202,"2026-09-22T23:00:04.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Hardware","hardware",168,"2026-09-22T23:56:03.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":18},"Science","science",133,{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",110,"2026-09-22T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Software","software",80,"2026-09-22T23:32:52.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Startups","startups",65,"2026-09-22T22:06:48.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Reviews","reviews",27,"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]