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A High Capacity Spatial Domain Data Hiding Scheme for Medical Images

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This paper presents a spatial steganography scheme with high steganography capacity for medical images. In the proposed scheme, four least significant bits of the cover image are used to hide secret information and a logistic mapping is employed to scramble cover image before embedding operation. In order to achieve minor degradation to cover medical image, the ROI region is excluded manually before embedding operation and an adaptive embedding strategy is employed. Experiment results show that, compared with Fan L’s hiding scheme, our proposed scheme can improve the steganography capacity by 2.25 times, and the maximum peak signal to noise ratio loss and average loss are only 0.78 and 0.45, respectively. In other words, our scheme does not only improve the capacity of the existing method but also can maintain an acceptable quality of the cover image.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61374015, 61202258 and 61602107), and the Central Universities Fundamental Research Funds of China under Grant no. N120317003, and Liaoning Provincial Department of Education’s Scientific and technological research award under Grant no. L20150167, and scholarship under State Scholarship Fund File no. 201606085034.

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    Dongqi Wang, Dongming Chen, Ben Ma & Jiliang Zhang

  2. Sino-Dutch Biomedical and Information Engineering School, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

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Wang, D., Chen, D., Ma, B. et al. A High Capacity Spatial Domain Data Hiding Scheme for Medical Images. J Sign Process Syst 87, 215–227 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-016-1169-7

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