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The last decade has witnessed an explosive use of medical images and Electronics Patient Record (EPR) in the healthcare sector for facilitating the sharing of patient information and exchange between networked hospitals and healthcare centers. To guarantee the security, authenticity and management of medical images and information through storage and distribution, the watermarking techniques are growing to protect the medical healthcare information. This paper presents a technique for embedding the EPR information in the medical image to save storage space and transmission overheads and to guarantee security of the shared data. In this paper a new method for protecting the patient information in which the information is embedded as a watermark in the discrete wavelet packet transform (DWPT) of the medical image using the hospital logo as a reference image. The patient information is coded by an error correcting code (ECC), BCH code, to enhance the robustness of the proposed method. ...
The Effect of Wavelet Families on Watermarking
Journal of Computers, 2009
With the advance of technologies such as the Internet, Wi-Fi Internet availability and mobile access, it is becoming harder than ever to safeguard intellectual property in a digital form. Digital watermarking is a steganographic technique that is used to protect creative content. Copyrighted work can be accessed from many different computing platforms; the same image can exist on a handheld personal digital assistant, as well as a laptop and desktop server computer. For those who want to pirate, it is simple to copy, modify and redistribute digital media. Because this impacts business profits adversely, this is a highly researched field in recent years. This paper examines a technique for digital watermarking which utilizes properties of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The digital watermarking algorithm is explained. This algorithm uses a database of 40 images that are of different types. These images, including greyscale, black and white, and color, were chosen for their diverse characteristics. Eight families of wavelets, both orthogonal and biorthogonal, are compared for their effectiveness. Three distinct watermarks are tested. Since compressing an image is a common occurrence, the images are compacted to determine the significance of such an action. Different types of noise are also added. The PSNR for each image and each wavelet family is used to measure the efficacy of the algorithm. This objective measure is also used to determine the influence of the mother wavelet. The paper asks the question:"Is the wavelet family chosen to implement the algorithm of consequence?" In summary, the results support the concept that the simpler wavelet transforms, e.g. the Haar wavelet, consistently outperform the more complex ones when using a non-colored watermark.
Analysis of the discrete wavelet coefficients using a Watermark Algorithm
POLIBITS, 2017
This paper analyses the performance of the Discrete Wavelet Transforms (DWT) in a watermark algorithm designed for digital images. This algorithm employs a perceptive mask and a normalization process. The watermark insertion is done through the spread-spectrum technique, which is still, after a couple of decades, one of the safest ways to disguise the presence of the watermark in the digital image to the human eye. The algorithm is evaluated by establishing which wavelet coefficient provides the best accommodation in the watermark, i.e., it is not noticeable and will resist the various attacks, both intended and unintended. Different objective metrics are used-Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR), Multi-Scale Structural Similarity Index (MSSIM) average, correlation coefficientand Bit Error Rate (BER) to determine which coefficient performs better in the insertion and extraction of the watermark.
A Comparison of DCT and DWT Block Based Watermarking on Medical Image Quality
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008
Hiding watermark information in medical image data files is one method of enhancing security and protecting patient privacy. However the research area of medical image watermarking has not been particularly active, partly due to concerns that any distortion could effect the diagnostic value of the medical image. These concerns can be address by ensuring that any image changes are kept below visual perception thresholds. In this paper the effects of image watermarking and common image manipulations are measured using the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), Structural Similarity Measure (SSIM) and Steerable Visual Difference Predictor (SVDP) numerical metrics. Two methods of block based watermarking are compared: the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). To ensure a fair comparison a 128-pixel block size is used which allows an identical amount of information to be embedded for each method (3072 bits multiplied by embedding strength). The results suggest that although the two methods are similar, the DCT method is preferable if localization of changes is required. If localization is not required the DWT method is supported.
Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, 2016
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AN INVESTIGATION OF WATERMARKING MEDICAL IMAGES
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