Ortega, M.Penedo, M.G.Rouco, J.Barreira, NoeliaCarreira Nouche, María José2020-06-122020-06-122009Ortega, M., Penedo, M.G., Rouco, J. et al. Retinal Verification Using a Feature Points-Based Biometric Pattern. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2009, 235746 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/2357461687-6180http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22976Biometrics refer to identity verification of individuals based on some physiologic or behavioural characteristics. The typical authentication process of a person consists in extracting a biometric pattern of him/her and matching it with the stored pattern for the authorised user obtaining a similarity value between patterns. In this work an efficient method for persons authentication is showed. The biometric pattern of the system is a set of feature points representing landmarks in the retinal vessel tree. The pattern extraction and matching is described. Also, a deep analysis of similarity metrics performance is presented for the biometric system. A database with samples of retina images from users on different moments of time is used, thus simulating a hard and real environment of verification. Even in this scenario, the system allows to establish a wide confidence band for the metric threshold where no errors are obtained for training and test sets.engCopyright © 2009 M. Ortega et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0RetinaFeature pointMetrics performanceRetina imageReal environmentjournal article10.1155/2009/235746open access