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In recent times, deep learning and machine learning have been progressively applied to ECG signals for a wide range of tasks such as person identification and arrhythmia detection. Deep learning approaches like Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), and Transformer based systems can learn hierarchical representations directly from raw or slightly processed ECG waveforms, capturing both temporal dynamics and morphological details of heartbeats.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This paper proposes FDDR-ID (FusionDriven Deep Representation Learning for ECG-Based Person Identification), a multitask deep learning framework designed to achieve robust identification performance under arrhythmic conditions. The proposed model initially preprocesses the ECG signals through three sub-processes: non-local means (NLM) filtering-based denoising, R-peak detection, and segmentation. To exploit the supremacy of deep learning approaches, every pre-processed ECG segment is converted into a two-dimensional representation using the shorttime Fourier transform to generate spectrograms. For feature extraction, a fusion of three deep learning models is used: SqueezeNet, NASNet, and EfficientNet. Moreover, a Siamese LSTM Autoencoder is utilized for the classification process, which includes three output branches: one each for person identification, age prediction, and gender classification. The model is trained with adaptive learning using the Nadam optimizer, ensuring faster convergence and improved generalization.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results and Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Performance validation is conducted on the proposed FDDR-ID model utilizing the ECG-ID Database and the MITBIH Arrhythmia Database. Extensive comparative analyses demonstrate that the presented method outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches. The proposed FDDR-ID method also shows important potential for real-world deployment in applications like smart authentication systems, wearable healthcare devices, remote patient monitoring, and secure biometric access platforms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fdgth.2026.1841911","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,18]],"date-time":"2026-08-18T05:37:15Z","timestamp":1787031435000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Advances in electrocardiogram signal analytics for person identification using fine-grained fusion-driven deep representation learning under arrhythmic conditions"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Majed","family":"Balkheer","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver","place":["Denver, CO, United States"]},{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology-Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University","place":["Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mahmoud","family":"Ragab","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University","place":["Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Reda","family":"Salama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University","place":["Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ashis Kumer","family":"Biswas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado Denver","place":["Denver, CO, United States"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4431","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-024-55066-w","article-title":"Person identification with arrhythmic ECG signals using deep convolution neural network","volume":"14","author":"Al-Jibreen","year":"2024","journal-title":"Sci Rep"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1109\/TBIOM.2019.2947434","article-title":"A novel approach for ECG-based human identification using spectral correlation and deep learning. 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