Pulse Active Transform (PAT): A non-invertible transformation with application to ECG biometric authentication

Sairul Izwan Bin Safie, H Nurfazira, Z Azavitra, John Soraghan, Lykourgos Petropoulakis

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Abstract

This paper presents a new transformation technique called the Pulse Active transform (PAT). The PAT uses a series of harmonically related periodic triangular waveforms to decompose a signal into a finite set of pulse active features. These features incorporate the signal's information in the pulse active domain, and which are subsequently processed for some desired application. PAT is non-invertible thus ensuring complete security of the original signal source. In this paper PAT is demonstrated on an ECG signal and used for biometric authentication. The new transformation technique is tested on 112 PTB subjects. It is shown in this paper that the new transformation has a superior performance compared to the conventional characteristic based feature extraction methods with additional security to avoid recovery of the original ECG.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRegion 10 Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PublisherIEEE
Pages667 - 671
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)978-1-4799-2028-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Apr 2014

Keywords

  • biometric authentication
  • electrocardiogram
  • pulse active transform

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