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Medical image region based watermarking for secured telemedicine

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Exchange of Medical images over public networks entail a methodology to offer secrecy for the image along with confirmation for image integrity. In this paper, a region-based Firefly optimized algorithm and hybridization of DWT and Schur transforms in conjunction with multiple watermarking is recommended to endow with security requisites such as authenticity of the ownership of medical image besides origin of source for interchange of medical images in telemedicine applications. Secrecy and authenticity are offered by inserting robust multiple watermarks in the region-of-noninterest (RONI) of the medical image by means of a blind method in the discrete wavelet transform and Schur transform (DWT-Schur). The capability of imperceptibility, robustness and payload are the main parameters for the assessment of watermarking algorithm, with MRI, Ultrasound plus X-ray gray-scale medical image modalities. Simulation results make obvious the efficacy of the projected algorithm in offering the essential security benefits for applications allied to telemedicine.

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Swaraja K Medical image region based watermarking for secured telemedicine. Multimed Tools Appl 77, 28249–28280 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6020-7

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