About the Authors

Joana S. Paiva

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research And INnovation (BRAIN), Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, Physics and Astronomy Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Duarte Dias

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical Research And INnovation (BRAIN), Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal

João P. S. Cunha

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jcunha@ieee.org

Affiliations Biomedical Research And INnovation (BRAIN), Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research (C-BER), INESC Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

Authors Joana S. Paiva and João P. S. Cunha have submitted a patent request entitled: “BIOMETRIC METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING A PERSON THROUGH AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) WAVEFORM”, with the reference PT109357. Title: BIOMETRIC METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING A PERSON THROUGH AN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) WAVEFORM Authors: Joao Paulo S. Cunha and Joana S. Paiva Submission Date: 2016/04/29, Number: 20161000028874 Code: 0198. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. I can assure that there are no restrictions on sharing of data and/or materials.