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Pixel Repetition Technique: A High Capacity and Reversible Data Hiding Method for E-Healthcare Applications

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Intelligent Techniques in Signal Processing for Multimedia Security

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 660))

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Electronic healthcare is changing the world worldwide scenario of the conventional healthcare. Transmission of medical images in e-healthcare system is of greater importance, because of the valuable information carried out by them for the purpose of tele-diagnosis and tele-medicine. For successful tele-diagnosis, it is imperative that the medical images should not be tampered with during transit. In this chapter, a high capacity and reversible data hiding system utilizing Pixel Repetition Technique (PRT) has been proposed. The usage of PRT for preprocessing reduces the computational complexity drastically. The proposed system is capable of any sort of tamper detection. This has been achieved by embedding a fragile watermark (computed from checksum of the cover medium blocks) in addition to electronic patient record (EPR). Block-wise division of cover image and intermediate significant bit (ISB) substitution have been used for data embedding. A detailed experimentation carried out shows that besides supporting high payload and reversibility our technique is capable of detecting any tamper caused due to signal processing and geometric attacks. Further, less computational complexity makes the proposed scheme an ideal candidate for real-time electronic healthcare applications.

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    S. A. Parah, F. Ahad, J. A. Sheikh, N. A. Loan & G. M. Bhat

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Parah, S.A., Ahad, F., Sheikh, J.A., Loan, N.A., Bhat, G.M. (2017). Pixel Repetition Technique: A High Capacity and Reversible Data Hiding Method for E-Healthcare Applications. In: Dey, N., Santhi, V. (eds) Intelligent Techniques in Signal Processing for Multimedia Security. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 660. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44790-2_17

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