Title
Clinical data privacy and customization via biometrics based on ECG signals
Abstract
User identity validation is particularly relevant for applications where data privacy is critical, such as Healthcare Information Systems (HIS), where patient records protection and medical acts traceability is extremely important. Current approaches to the problem include biometric solutions, however, traditional modalities only allow momentary verification; readers are generally fixed to a static location, and direct contact or proximity is required. State-of-the-art work has been focusing solutions for continuous, or more frequent assessment in an unobtrusive way. In this paper we present a framework for continuous identity verification, based on knowledge discovery from ECG signals for security enhancement in the HIS context. ECG signals are particularly convenient, as they are frequently already measured in patients, and can also be easily obtained from caregivers interacting with the information system. Experimental results were performed in a population of 32 healthy individuals, and the system attained a 2.75%±0.29 EER for the task of identity verification.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-25364-5_12
USAB
Keywords
Field
DocType
healthcare information systems,user identity validation,ecg signal,state-of-the-art work,information system,identity verification,momentary verification,clinical data privacy,biometric solution,continuous identity verification,current approach,data privacy,human computer interaction
Information system,Modalities,Data mining,Population,Knowledge extraction,Biometrics,Engineering,Information privacy,Traceability,Personalization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hugo Silva122730.18
André Lourenço231245.33
Ana Fred321617.07
Joaquim Filipe43562763.55