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Why biomedical signals fail across patients—and how to fix it

Guikang Du, Haoran Li, Xinyu Liu, Zhibo Zhang, Xiaoli Gong, Jin Zhang

May 21, 2026

Biomedical signals like EEGs and ECGs have consistent patterns within a condition but shift in frequency and amplitude between patients, breaking models trained on one group. BioFormer treats this as a spectral alignment problem: it detects frequency-component shifts and adjusts them to match across subjects, like tuning a radio's interference. Combined with signal-aware normalization, the method improves cross-subject accuracy by 6% absolute F1 over existing approaches across six datasets.
Published as BioFormer: Rethinking Cross-Subject Generalization via Spectral Structural Alignment in Biomedical Time-Series arXiv:2605.22468
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