Research Article

ECG-Based Subject Identification Using Statistical Features and Random Forest

Table 3

The proposed approaches in comparison with PTB-based subject identification methods.

ReferencesMethodYearNSDU (s)Sen

Agrafioti and Hatzinakos [45]Autocorrelation and discrete cosine transform (DCT)20061410100
Wübbeler et al. [70]Fiducial features and simple distance measure2007741099
Agrafioti and Hatzinakos [71]Normalized autocorrelation coefficients and K-nearest neighbors (K-NN) as a classifier2008131096.2
Agrafioti and Hatzinakos [72]Same approach as in [70] with feature level and decision level fusions2008145100
Wang et al. [73]Autocorrelation (AC) in conjunction with a discrete cosine transform (DCT) and K-NN as classifier200813NA84.61
Fatemian and Hatzinakos [36]Templet-based200913NA99.62
Safie et al. [74]Pulse active ratio (PAR) technique for feature extraction and Euclidean distance20111123093.60
Zhao et al. [49]Ensemble empirical mode decomposition, Welch spectral analysis to extract significant features, principal component analysis (PCA) for dimensionality reduction, and K-NN as classifier201325NA96.00
Tantawi et al. [75]
Test set 1
Test set 2
Fiducial feature set (with 28 features) and four feature reduction methods (PCA, linear discriminant analysis (LDA), information gain ratio (IGR), and rough sets) and neural network as a classifier201314
6
~8100
83.3
Wang et al. [76]Sparse representation and K-NN as classifier20131002-499.5
Jekova and Bortolan [77]Correlation coefficient assessment, along with assessment of their linear and nonlinear combinations2015141092.9
Brás and Pinho [78]Information-theoretic data models for data compression and on similarity metrics related to the approximation of the Kolmogorov complexity2015522099.9
Waili et al. [79]Q-R-S feature points and multilayer perceptional neural network as a classifier20161412
1.02 heartbeats
96
Paiva et al. [25]Three features ST, RT, and QT and support vector machines as a classifier2017103097.5
Dong et al. [80]Deterministic learning2018113NA92.8
Labati et al. [58]The deep convolutional neural networks are used to extract the features from QRS complexes and soft-max as a classifier.20185210100
Alotaiby et al. [81]Common spatial pattern and support vector machine as a classifier20192007
Single-lead (I)95.15
Single-lead (V3)98.92
Proposed method11 statistical features, DWT, and random forest as a classifier2907
Single-lead (I)99.66
Single-lead (aVF)99.17
Single-lead (V1)99.52
Single-lead (Vx)99.79

DU: duration; NA: the information is not available or computable; NS: number of subjects; Sen: sensitivity.