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Individual identification via electrocardiogram analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BioMedical Engineering OnLine, August 2015
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Title
Individual identification via electrocardiogram analysis
Published in
BioMedical Engineering OnLine, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12938-015-0072-y
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Antonio Fratini, Mario Sansone, Paolo Bifulco, Mario Cesarelli

Abstract

During last decade the use of ECG recordings in biometric recognition studies has increased. ECG characteristics made it suitable for subject identification: it is unique, present in all living individuals, and hard to forge. However, in spite of the great number of approaches found in literature, no agreement exists on the most appropriate methodology. This study aimed at providing a survey of the techniques used so far in ECG-based human identification. Specifically, a pattern recognition perspective is here proposed providing a unifying framework to appreciate previous studies and, hopefully, guide future research. We searched for papers on the subject from the earliest available date using relevant electronic databases (Medline, IEEEXplore, Scopus, and Web of Knowledge). The following terms were used in different combinations: electrocardiogram, ECG, human identification, biometric, authentication and individual variability. The electronic sources were last searched on 1st March 2015. In our selection we included published research on peer-reviewed journals, books chapters and conferences proceedings. The search was performed for English language documents. 100 pertinent papers were found. Number of subjects involved in the journal studies ranges from 10 to 502, age from 16 to 86, male and female subjects are generally present. Number of analysed leads varies as well as the recording conditions. Identification performance differs widely as well as verification rate. Many studies refer to publicly available databases (Physionet ECG databases repository) while others rely on proprietary recordings making difficult them to compare. As a measure of overall accuracy we computed a weighted average of the identification rate and equal error rate in authentication scenarios. Identification rate resulted equal to 94.95 % while the equal error rate equal to 0.92 %. Biometric recognition is a mature field of research. Nevertheless, the use of physiological signals features, such as the ECG traits, needs further improvements. ECG features have the potential to be used in daily activities such as access control and patient handling as well as in wearable electronics applications. However, some barriers still limit its growth. Further analysis should be addressed on the use of single lead recordings and the study of features which are not dependent on the recording sites (e.g. fingers, hand palms). Moreover, it is expected that new techniques will be developed using fiducials and non-fiducial based features in order to catch the best of both approaches. ECG recognition in pathological subjects is also worth of additional investigations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Unknown 148 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Student > Bachelor 19 13%
Researcher 12 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 5%
Other 26 17%
Unknown 37 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 44 29%
Computer Science 31 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 43 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 July 2022.
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#1,211,498
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#15
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