ECG biometric recognition: A comparative analysis

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1812-1824

  Odinaka, Ikenna ^a   Lai, Po Hsiang ^b   Kaplan, Alan D ^c   O'Sullivan, Joseph A ^a   Sirevaag, Erik J ^d   Rohrbaugh, John W ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b Samsung Dallas Technology Laboratories   (United States)

^c EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentication; biometrics; classification; ECG; EKG; electrocardiogram; fusion; identification; recognition; verification

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION; BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EQUAL ERROR RATE; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION ALGORITHM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAINING AND TESTING; TRAINING SESSIONS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTHENTICATION; BIOMETRICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FUSION REACTIONS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VERIFICATION;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870264493     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2012.2215324     Document Type: Article

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