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Medical Image Protection Using Blockchain for E-healthcare System

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Evolution in Computational Intelligence

Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 267))

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Basically, the modern E-healthcare system is a Cloud-based system where all the details of Patient Health Information (PHI) on disease diagnosis and scan reports are stored and shared among the stockholders of the system. However, the security of these sensitive records against unauthorized access and misuse is of major concern. In this context, a Blockchain-based record-sharing system could play an important role for secure transactions of medical information. In this paper, a smart contracts and Inter Planetary File System (IPFS)-based secure medical image protection system has been proposed to encrypt the session data. Moreover, it records every transaction of patient data in the Blockchain for better traceability. The performance of the proposed framework is evaluated in simulation to show its effectiveness.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, 800005, India

    Punam Prabha, Yash Janoria, Harsh Raj, Uday Patidar & Kakali Chatterjee

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  1. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vikrant Bhateja

  2. College of Computing, Michigan Technological University, Michigan, MI, USA

    Jinshan Tang

  3. School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  4. Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Peter Peer

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Mizoram, Aizawl, India

    Ranjita Das

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Prabha, P., Janoria, Y., Raj, H., Patidar, U., Chatterjee, K. (2022). Medical Image Protection Using Blockchain for E-healthcare System. In: Bhateja, V., Tang, J., Satapathy, S.C., Peer, P., Das, R. (eds) Evolution in Computational Intelligence. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 267. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6616-2_15

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