Table 3 Impact of physician-informed distillation

From: Bridging clinical knowledge and AI: an interpretable transformer framework for ECG diagnosis

Distillation Source (Teacher Model)

Accuracy (%)

F1-Score (%)

Teacher trained without clinical indices

97.89

95.12

Teacher trained with clinical indices

99.53

97.26

  1. This ablation compares the final student model’s performance when trained by a teacher with versus without access to clinical indices.
  2. Bold values indicate the best performance among all methods.