Table 1 Overview of the relevant works.

From: Securing Internet-of-Medical-Things networks using cancellable ECG recognition

Reference

Number of Subjects

Acquisition method or database

Classifier Type

Performance Metrics

Limitations

Lee and Kwak17

1- 100

2- 290

1- CU-ECG DB

2- PTB-ECG DB

EECGNet-based SVM

Accuracy = 98.25%

Utilization of merely two datasets.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Additional complexity by transforming ECG signals into images.

Barros et al.19

1- 1500

2- 100

2018 database for PhysioNet  Computing in Cardiology

RF Classifier

1-Accuracy = 92%

2-Accuracy = 95%

Just one ECG dataset is used.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Taking noise in the ECG signals into account.

Su et al.21

NaN

VeinECG derived from the ECG-ID and FVPolyU finger vein datasets

Discriminant Correlation Analysis (DCA)

Accuracy = 94%

Utilization of just one ECG dataset.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Taking noise in ECG signals into account.

Zhang et al.22

85

3 public ECG databases

Matching method

Accuracy = 97.6%

Taking noise in ECG signals into account.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Taking 4 s for authentication and 20 s for registration of a new subject.

Hammad et al.23

1- 25 men, and 22 women signals

2- 290

3- 65 subjects (49 males and 16 females)

1- MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset

2- PTB dataset

3- CYBHi dataset

Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN)

1-EER = 0.06

2-EER = 0.14

3-EER = 0.09

Disregarding noise in ECG signals.

Kim et al.24

89

ECG-ID database

Euclidean detection

Accuracy = 94.3%

Utilization of just one ECG dataset.

Taking noise in ECG signals into account.

Zhao et al.25

50

Database for Physionet ECG

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Accuracy = 99%

Utilization of just one dataset.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Taking noise in ECG signals into account.

Additional complexity due to transforming the ECG signal into an image.

Blasco et al.26

25

Low-cost sensor dataset

One-class classifier with

density estimation

Accuracy = 99%

EER = 0.16

Utilization of just one dataset.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Taking noise in ECG signals into account.

Bugdol et al.27

30

Voice-ECG database

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classifier

Accuracy = 89%

Utilization of just one ECG dataset.

Making use of the initial ECG templates.

Taking noise in ECG signals into account.