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ArticlePhysiological measurement2026

From PhysioNet to foundation models-a history and potential futures.

Gari D Clifford

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Article in Physiological measurement, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Gari D CliffordDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5709-201X

Funding

Research Resource for Complex Physiologic SignalsR01EB030362 · NIBIB · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI GOLDBERGER, ARY LOUIS · 2020 to 2025
$5.8M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB030362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last 35 years, the sharing of medical data and models for research has evolved from sneakernet to the internet-from mailing magnetic tapes and compact discs of a handful of well-curated recordings, to the high-speed download of relatively comprehensive hospital databases. More recently, the fervor around the potential for modern machine learning and 'AI' to catapult us into the next industrial revolution has led to a seemingly insatiable desire to pump almost any source of data into large models. Although this has great potential, it also presents a whole set of new challenges. In this article I examine these trends over the last 30 years, drawing on examples from the world of physiology, and in particular, cardiology, since it is one of the oldest data-intensive fields, and is undergoing a renaissance in the context of machine learning. From the early days of computerized cardiology, the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals (

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History, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumanscardiologyedge-AIedge-computingfoundation modelsPhysioNetTiny-ML

Identifiers

PMID42615556
PMCPMC13488288

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Registered trials

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