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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

ECG-Based Biometric Recognition: A Survey of Methods and Databases.

David Meltzer, David Luengo

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David MeltzerDepartment of Telematics & Electronics, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle Nikola Tesla s/n, 28031 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3074-9023
David LuengoDepartment of Audiovisual & Communications Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle Nikola Tesla s/n, 28031 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7407-3630

Funding

MICIU/AEI MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This work presents a comprehensive and chronologically ordered survey of existing studies and data sources on Electrocardiogram (ECG) based biometric recognition systems. This survey is organized in terms of the two main goals pursued in it: first, a description of the main ECG features and recognition techniques used in the existing literature, including a comprehensive compilation of references; second, a survey of the ECG databases available and used by the referenced studies. The most relevant characteristics of the databases are identified, and a comprehensive compilation of databases is given. To date, no other work has presented such a complete overview of both studies and data sources for ECG-based biometric recognition. Readers interested in the subject can obtain an understanding of the state of the art, easily identifying specific key papers by using different criteria, and become aware of the databases where they can test their novel algorithms.

Indexed as

Biometric IdentificationBiometryDatabases, FactualElectrocardiographyAlgorithmsHumansSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedECG biometricsECG databasesidentificationsurveyverification

Identifiers

PMID40293056
PMCPMC11946575

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