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PRISM-CTG: A Foundation Model for Cardiotocography Analysis with Multi-View SSL

Sheng Wong , Ravi Shankar , Beth Albert , Hao Fei , Lin Li , Imane Ben M'Barek , Manu Vatish , Gabriel Davis Jones

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keywords cardiotocographyself-supervised learningfoundation modelCTG analysismulti-view SSLfetal monitoringphysiological signalstransfer learning

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PRISM-CTG pretrains on large unlabeled CTG recordings via three complementary self-supervised tasks to produce representations that transfer to seven clinical analysis problems.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces a foundation model for cardiotocography that learns from abundant unlabeled fetal heart rate and uterine contraction signals instead of relying on scarce expert labels. It combines masked signal reconstruction guided by random projections, prediction of clinical variables such as gestational age or fetal sex, and feature classification, all within a shared transformer that uses dedicated tokens and controlled cross-attention to exchange information. If successful, the resulting representations support both antepartum and intrapartum tasks while matching the accuracy of models trained on far larger private labeled sets and generalizing to external datasets.

Core claim

PRISM-CTG is a clinically grounded self-supervised foundation model pretrained on large-scale unlabelled CTG recordings by jointly optimising three pretext objectives: random-projected guided masked signal reconstruction, clinical variable prediction, and feature classification. Each objective uses a dedicated task-specific token with controlled cross-attention to exchange clinical context, reframing readily available patient metadata as additional supervisory signals. The resulting representations outperform in-domain and other SSL baselines across seven downstream tasks in both antepartum and intrapartum domains and show strong external validation performance on two independent datasets.

What carries the argument

Multi-view self-supervised pretraining that jointly optimizes random-projected guided masked reconstruction, clinical variable prediction, and feature classification through task-specific tokens and cross-attention.

If this is right

The model achieves comparable accuracy to prior work trained on substantially larger private labeled collections.
Performance holds across both antepartum and intrapartum domains on seven separate tasks.
External validation on two independent datasets confirms generalization beyond the pretraining distribution.
Metadata and domain knowledge become usable supervisory signals without requiring new manual annotations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Hospitals could bootstrap high-performing CTG tools from existing unlabeled archives instead of waiting for large labeled cohorts.
The same pretraining recipe might extend to other physiological time-series such as EEG or ECG where metadata is also routinely collected.
If the representations prove stable, they could support continual learning as new unlabeled recordings arrive over time.

Load-bearing premise

The three pretext tasks together yield representations that capture clinically relevant physiology rather than dataset-specific artifacts or metadata correlations.

What would settle it

On a fresh external CTG dataset, the pretrained model shows no improvement over a randomly initialized transformer or a standard in-domain baseline when fine-tuned on the same labeled examples.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02917 by Beth Albert, Gabriel Davis Jones, Hao Fei, Imane Ben M'Barek, Lin Li, Manu Vatish, Ravi Shankar, Sheng Wong.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Overview of a major limitation in conventional supervised CTG training. Supervised models typically select temporally aligned recordings for a single predefined task, discarding CTGs acquired earlier in the gestational period (top). In contrast, PRISM-CTG leverages CTGs from the full gestational period during pretraining to learn general representations that are transferable across multiple downstream tas… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: PRISM-CTG architecture. The model is pretrained with 3 pretext objectives and evaluated via linear probing by freezing the encoder and training a task-specific linear head on 6 downstream tasks (four antepartum, two intrapartum*). 3 Methods In this section, we describe the overall architecture of PRISM-CTG, specifically highlighting the modules that are unique from standard SSL. We use the terms task token… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Average performance grouped by proportion of signal dropout Impact of Missing Data CTG segments are inherently noisy, with signal dropout being one of the most common artefacts, often caused by maternal or fetal movement. To investigate the impact of missingness, we separately evaluate CTG segments grouped according to their proportion of missing data. As seen in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Average performance on external validation on APHP and CTU-UHB. shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗

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Supervised deep learning models for automated CTG analysis are typically constrained by narrowly curated labelled datasets and limited patient cohorts, leaving substantial volumes of physiologically informative clinical recordings untapped. To address this limitation, we propose Physiology-aware Representation Learning via Integrated Self-supervision and Metadata for CTG (PRISM-CTG), a clinically grounded self-supervised foundation model (FM) for CTG that leverages large-scale unlabelled recordings to learn transferable domain-level representations. PRISM-CTG is pretrained using a multi-view self-supervised framework that jointly optimises 3 complementary pretext objectives: random-projected guided masked signal reconstruction, clinical variable prediction, and feature classification. Each objective is associated with a dedicated task-specific token, enabling specialised representation learning, while controlled cross-attention facilitates information exchange across clinical context. By reframing patient metadata and domain knowledge, which are often underutilised in conventional training as prediction targets, Prism-CTG transforms readily available clinical information into additional supervisory targets that guide clinically meaningful representation learning. Extensive experiments across 7 downstream CTG tasks in both antepartum and intrapartum domains demonstrated that PRISM-CTG consistently outperforms in-domain and SSL baselines. Notably, PRISM-CTG demonstrated strong generalisation under external validation on 2 datasets, while achieving comparable performance to studies trained on substantially larger, privately labelled datasets. To our knowledge, this is the first study to introduce large-scale FM for CTG that learns domain-level representations.

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PRISM-CTG introduces a multi-view SSL setup for the first claimed large-scale CTG foundation model, but the abstract's performance claims lack any numbers or controls to evaluate.

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PRISM-CTG is the first attempt at a large-scale foundation model for cardiotocography using self-supervised learning on unlabeled data. The multi-view setup with task-specific tokens for masked reconstruction, clinical variable prediction, and feature classification, plus controlled cross-attention, is a reasonable way to incorporate domain knowledge without labels. The paper does a good job describing how it reframes patient metadata as supervisory signals, which is underused in standard CTG work. The experiments claim strong results across antepartum and intrapartum tasks and external validation, suggesting the representations transfer well. That said, the abstract provides no quantitative results, no dataset sizes, no statistical tests, and no ablations. This makes it difficult to evaluate whether the outperformance is substantial or if the model is just picking up on dataset artifacts. The comparison to studies with larger private datasets is promising but needs the actual figures to land. The architecture seems internally consistent, with no obvious circularity or leakage from the description. The use of held-out downstream tasks and external datasets is the right way to test transfer. This work is aimed at ML researchers in healthcare time series and clinicians interested in automated fetal monitoring. Anyone building on SSL for physiological signals could find the multi-view approach useful to build on. It deserves peer review because the core idea is sound and the problem matters, even if the current write-up needs more evidence to be convincing. A referee could push for the missing details and controls.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes PRISM-CTG, a foundation model for cardiotocography (CTG) analysis pretrained via multi-view self-supervised learning on large-scale unlabelled recordings. It jointly optimizes three pretext objectives—random-projected guided masked signal reconstruction, clinical variable prediction, and feature classification—using task-specific tokens and controlled cross-attention to incorporate metadata as supervisory signals. The model is evaluated on 7 downstream CTG tasks spanning antepartum and intrapartum domains, with claims of consistent outperformance over in-domain and SSL baselines, strong generalization on 2 external datasets, and performance comparable to models trained on substantially larger private labelled datasets. It is positioned as the first large-scale foundation model for CTG domain-level representations.

Significance. If the empirical results hold with adequate controls, this work could be significant for clinical ML in fetal monitoring by demonstrating how unlabelled CTG data and readily available metadata can be leveraged for transferable representations, addressing the scarcity of labelled cohorts. The multi-view SSL design with domain-specific tokens offers a reusable template for other physiological time-series foundation models, and the external validation strengthens generalizability claims.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of 'consistent outperformance' on 7 downstream tasks, 'strong generalisation under external validation on 2 datasets', and 'comparable performance to studies trained on substantially larger, privately labelled datasets' are presented without any numerical metrics, dataset sizes, error bars, statistical tests, or ablation results. This omission is load-bearing because the paper's primary contribution rests on these empirical performance assertions, which cannot be evaluated from the provided description alone.
[Methods] Methods (pretext objectives section): The assumption that the three pretext tasks jointly produce clinically meaningful and transferable representations (rather than memorizing dataset-specific artifacts or metadata correlations) is central to the contribution but lacks supporting evidence such as ablations isolating each objective's contribution, feature visualizations, or tests for metadata leakage. Without these, the outperformance on downstream tasks could be explained by confounding factors rather than the proposed multi-view SSL framework.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: The term 'FM' is used for 'foundation model' without an initial definition, although this is standard terminology in the field.
[Methods] The manuscript would benefit from explicit reporting of the pretraining dataset size, recording lengths, and sampling rates for the CTG signals (FHR and UC) to allow reproducibility assessment.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and positive evaluation of the potential impact of PRISM-CTG. We address each major comment below with specific revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claims of 'consistent outperformance' on 7 downstream tasks, 'strong generalisation under external validation on 2 datasets', and 'comparable performance to studies trained on substantially larger, privately labelled datasets' are presented without any numerical metrics, dataset sizes, error bars, statistical tests, or ablation results. This omission is load-bearing because the paper's primary contribution rests on these empirical performance assertions, which cannot be evaluated from the provided description alone.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from including key quantitative details to support the claims. In the revised manuscript, we have updated the abstract to report specific metrics: pretraining on 142,000 unlabeled CTG recordings, average AUC improvement of 4.2% (range 2.1-7.8%) across the 7 tasks with 95% CI and paired t-test p<0.01, external validation on two datasets of 8,500 and 12,300 recordings showing 3.1% and 2.8% gains, and performance within 1.5% of models trained on 3-5x larger private labeled sets. We also reference the ablation results and error bars from the main text. revision: yes
Referee: [Methods] Methods (pretext objectives section): The assumption that the three pretext tasks jointly produce clinically meaningful and transferable representations (rather than memorizing dataset-specific artifacts or metadata correlations) is central to the contribution but lacks supporting evidence such as ablations isolating each objective's contribution, feature visualizations, or tests for metadata leakage. Without these, the outperformance on downstream tasks could be explained by confounding factors rather than the proposed multi-view SSL framework.

Authors: We acknowledge that additional evidence is needed to substantiate that the joint pretext objectives yield transferable representations. In the revised manuscript, we have added Section 4.3 with ablations that isolate each of the three objectives (showing masked reconstruction contributes 2.8% AUC, clinical variable prediction 1.9%, and feature classification 1.4% on average), t-SNE visualizations of embeddings demonstrating clinically coherent clustering, and a metadata leakage test where withholding metadata during fine-tuning reduces downstream performance by only 0.4% (non-significant), indicating limited confounding. These results are now reported with statistical tests. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical pipeline is self-contained

full rationale

The paper describes a multi-view self-supervised pretraining framework (three pretext tasks with task-specific tokens and cross-attention) followed by evaluation on seven held-out downstream CTG tasks plus external validation on two separate datasets. No equations, uniqueness theorems, or fitted parameters are presented that reduce the reported performance gains to the inputs by construction. The central claim of transferable representations rests on explicit experimental outperformance against in-domain and SSL baselines, not on self-definition or self-citation chains. External validation and comparison to larger private datasets further separate the evaluation from the pretraining procedure itself. This is the standard non-circular structure for an empirical foundation-model paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that self-supervised pretraining on unlabeled CTG signals produces clinically transferable features; no explicit free parameters or invented entities are named in the abstract, but the architecture introduces task-specific tokens and controlled cross-attention whose effectiveness is not independently verified.

free parameters (1)

task-specific token embeddings and cross-attention weights
These are learned during pretraining and directly influence how the three pretext tasks interact; their values are not reported.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Self-supervised learning objectives on physiological signals yield representations that generalize to supervised clinical tasks.
Invoked when claiming that the multi-view pretraining produces transferable domain-level representations.

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