AI Austria Meetup - Innsbruck

Welcome to the re-start of the AI Austria Meetup event series in Innsbruck! We will have regular meetups to exchange knowledge, network and build an AI community in Innsbruck. This is a technical meetup, so we will go into depth on different AI-related topics, but you are of course welcome to join with every background.

Agenda
6:30 pm // Start of Event, Welcome
6:45 pm // Talk 1 by Cloudflight: TBA

~ 7:30 pm // Talk 2: Transformer–xLSTM Ensembles: Achieving 2nd Place in the 2025 PhysioNet Challenge for ECG-Based Chagas Disease Detection, Angus Nicolson, Medical University of Innsbruck

Diagnosing Chagas Disease — a condition that can lead to heart failure and arrhythmias — is crucial, and automated diagnosis from non-invasive, low-cost ECGs is a promising solution. However, there are two major machine learning challenges to overcome: a severe class imbalance (2% positive cases) and a high-level of label uncertainty from self-reported patient diagnoses. In the 2025 PhysioNet Challenge, our team from the Digital Cardiology Lab at the Medical University of Innsbruck achieved 2nd place through large-scale pretraining of multiple foundation models. We utilised the complementary strengths of Transformer models (leveraging attention mechanisms) and xLSTMs (a recurrent architecture well-suited for time-series data like ECGs). In this talk I will summarise the challenge, the problems we encountered and how we overcame them, along with some technical details of our solution.

~ 08:15 pm // food, networking
9:15 pm // end

Location: https://www.cloudflight.io/en/location/innsbruck/
Cloudflight, Bürgerstraße 1-3, 2. OG
6020 Innsbruck

Time: 25.11.2025, 6:30 - 9 pm
Entrance: free
Sponsors: Cloudflight

We are looking forward to meeting you!