학술논문

ECG Biometric Recognition: Review, System Proposal, and Benchmark Evaluation
Document Type
article
Source
IEEE Access, Vol 11, Pp 15555-15566 (2023)
Subject
Biometrics
deep learning
ECG
recognition
verification
Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
TK1-9971
Language
English
ISSN
2169-3536
Abstract
ECGs have shown unique patterns to distinguish between different subjects and present important advantages compared to other biometric traits. However, the lack of public data and standard experimental protocols makes the evaluation and comparison of novel ECG methods difficult. In this study, we perform extensive analysis and comparison of different scenarios in ECG biometric recognition. We consider verification and identification tasks, single- and multi-session settings, and single- and multi-lead ECGs recorded with traditional and user-friendly devices. We also present ECGXtractor, a robust Deep Learning technology trained with an in-house large-scale database, and evaluate it with detailed experimental protocol and public databases. With the popular PTB database, we achieve Equal Error Rates of 0.14% and 2.06% in single- and multi-session verification. The results achieved prove the soundness of ECGXtractor across multiple scenarios and databases. We release the source code, experimental protocol details, and pre-trained models in GitHub to advance in the field.