Biometric Individual Identification System Based on the ECG Signal

Human biometric identification based on the ElectroCardioGram (ECG) is relatively new. This domain is intended to recognize individuals since the ECG has unique characteristics for each individual. These features are robust against forgery. In this study, feature extraction from ECG signals was performed using a combination of three new types of characteristics: MFCC, ZCR, and entropy. We proposed to apply classification methods: K Nearest Neighbors (KNN) and support vector machines (SVM) for human biometric identification. For evaluation we used two bases, namely MIT-BIH arrhythmia and normal sinus rhythm obtained from the Physionet database. For the MIT-BIH database, we used 47 individuals, each recording contains ECG data recorded for 15 s and in the SNR database, we used 18 individuals, the duration of each recording is 10 s. The analysis of the results obtained shows that the combination of all the features proposed makes it possible to improve the efficiency of our identification system to reach a performance rate equal to 100% for the two bases.