Table 1 Comparison of representative deep learning architectures for ECG signal analysis.

From: Research on cross-dataset cardiac signal domain generalization and feature interpretability

Architecture

Feature modeling

Temporal dependency

Limitations

CNN

Local convolution

Short-term, fixed window

Limited context awareness

RNN

Sequential recurrence

Captures long-term trends

Prone to gradient vanishing

Transformer

Self-attention

Global, multi-scale

Requires larger training data