scholarly journals An Improved Medical Image Watermarking Technique Based on Weber’s Law Descriptors

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1637-1646
Author(s):  
KVSV Trinadh Reddy ◽  
S. Narayana Reddy

In distributed m-health communication, it is a major challenge to develop an efficient blind watermarking method to protect the confidential medical data of patients. This paper proposes an efficient blind watermarking for medical images, which boasts a very high embedding capacity, a good robustness, and a strong imperceptibility. Three techniques, namely, discrete cosine transform (DCT), Weber’s descriptors (WDs), and Arnold chaotic map, were integrated to our method. Specifically, the Arnold chaotic map was used to scramble the watermark image. Then, the medical image was partitioned into non-over lapping blocks, and each block was subjected to DCT. After that, the scrambled watermark image data were embedded in the middle-band DCT coefficients of each block, such that two bits were embedded in each block. Simulation results show that the proposed watermarking method provides better imperceptibility, robustness, and computational complexity results with higher embedding capacity than the contrastive method.

Securing the data of patient and keeping the information confidential has become a challenging task at present days. More number of chances are available for information alteration or security breach. When the information is transferred from source to destination digital image watermarking technique is most commonly used to secure the patient’s information watermarking provides the copy right protection, authentication proof and detection of tampering. This paper presents a watermarking technique to embed patient’s information in a medical image so that information can be transferred securely and information alteration would be prevented. An Arnold Chaotic Map is applied to the sensitive watermark image to scramble the pixels in the sensitive watermark image. The cover medical image is partitioned into non overlapping blocks and DCT is applied to each block. Each and every bit of the watermark image is embedded into block by using Weber Descriptor. By using this Weber Descriptor robustness of an image will be increased. An experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm improves the robustness against various attacks like compression, filtering and noising.


2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0

One of the important issues in telemedicine field refers to an advanced secure communication. Digital image watermarking is an ideal solution since it protects the electronic patient information’s from unauthorized access. This paper presents a novel blind fragile-based image watermarking scheme in spatial domain that merges Speed Up Robust Features (SURF) descriptor with the well-known Weber Descriptors (WDs) and Arnold algorithm. It provides a good way for enhancing the image quality and time complexity for medical data integrity. Firstly, the watermark image is shuffled using Arnold chaotic map. Secondly, the SURF technique is practiced to Region of Interest (ROI) of the medical image and then the blocks around the SURF points are selected to insert the watermark. Finally, the watermark is encrusted and extracted using WDs. Experimental results show good image fidelity with the shortest execution time to ensure medical images integrity.


Cryptography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 480-497
Author(s):  
Lin Gao ◽  
Tiegang Gao ◽  
Jie Zhao

This paper proposed a reversible medical image watermarking scheme using Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT) and sub-sample. To meet the highly demand of the perceptional quality, the proposed scheme embedding the watermark by modifying the RDWT coefficients. The sub-sample scheme is introduced to the proposed scheme for the enhancement of the embedding capacity. Moreover, to meet the need of security, a PWLCM based image encryption algorithm is introduced for encrypting the image after the watermark embedding. The experimental results suggests that the proposed scheme not only meet the highly demand of the perceptional quality, but also have better embedding capacity than former DWT based scheme. Also the encryption scheme could protect the image contents efficiently.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1857-1864
Author(s):  
V. Kavitha ◽  
C. Palanisamy ◽  
T. Sureshkumar

A hybrid watermarking technique using wavelet and Shearlet transform is proposed in this paper. The DWT variant Daub4 transform model is applied on the medical image to generate different frequency sub-bands. The HL and LH sub-bands which are resistant to compression attacks are chosen for second level of transformation, a DST variant 'Cone adaptive Shearlet transform' technique is used to calculate the Shearlet coefficients of the selected sub-bands. By using SVD on the Shearlet coefficients, the singular values of watermark image are embedded into the singular values of the host image. The proposed approach is examined using three medical images and a watermark image. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is robust against JPEG compression, Geometric and Noise attacks.


Author(s):  
Sheshang Degadwala ◽  
Sanjay Chaudhary ◽  
Sanjay Gaur

The fast improvement of the advanced media innovation and the web permit individuals will copy, transmit, appropriate Furthermore store data more undoubtedly. Restorative pictures traded in open networks oblige a technique with give acceptable secrecy for the image, genuineness of the picture proprietorship Also hotspot from claiming origin, Also picture integument confirmation. This Look into keeps tabs for blind watermarking from claiming Medical images, both ash scale and in addition color, preserving its ROI. It also successfully manages tolerant wellbeing record Eventually Tom's perusing safely embedding it inside those picture in front of transmission. The paper is introduce new Embedding Process with Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition then relate with others methods performance with different Rotational attacks to demonstrate with parameters. Also Attack detection and recovery of ROI using pseudo Zernike moment and affine transform made this very functional method in the approaching color picture watermarking areas.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Gao ◽  
Tiegang Gao ◽  
Jie Zhao

This paper proposed a reversible medical image watermarking scheme using Redundant Discrete Wavelet Transform (RDWT) and sub-sample. To meet the highly demand of the perceptional quality, the proposed scheme embedding the watermark by modifying the RDWT coefficients. The sub-sample scheme is introduced to the proposed scheme for the enhancement of the embedding capacity. Moreover, to meet the need of security, a PWLCM based image encryption algorithm is introduced for encrypting the image after the watermark embedding. The experimental results suggests that the proposed scheme not only meet the highly demand of the perceptional quality, but also have better embedding capacity than former DWT based scheme. Also the encryption scheme could protect the image contents efficiently.


Author(s):  
Khaldi Amine ◽  
Kahlessenane Fares ◽  
Kafi Med Redouane ◽  
Euschi Salah

In this work, we proposed a robust and blind watermarking approach to adequately secure medical images exchanged in telemedicine. This approach ensures the traceability and integrity of the medical and essential image for data security in the field of telemedicine. In this paper, a blind watermarking method is proposed to adequately secure the electronic patient records. The integration of the watermark will be carefully performed by combining the parity of the successive values. This innovative approach will be typically implemented in the three insertion domains: spatial, frequency and multi-resolution. For the spatial domain, the watermark will be integrated into the colorimetric values of the image. In the frequency domain, the watermark bits will be substituted to the DCT coefficient’s least significant bit. For the multi-resolution domain insertion, after calculating a DWT, the obtained LL sub-band coefficients will be used for the integration process. After comparing our approaches to the various recent works in the three domains, the obtained results demonstrate that our proposed approach offers a good imperceptibility for the frequency and spatial domains insertion.


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