Journal
JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 114-125Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9253-1
Keywords
Watermarking; Data hiding; Medical Image Authentication; Electronic patient record
Funding
- Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation [01-01-05-SF0114]
- Ministry of Higher Education
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Authenticating medical images using watermarking techniques has become a very popular area of research, and some works in this area have been reported worldwide recently. Besides authentication, many data-hiding techniques have been proposed to conceal patient's data into medical images aiming to reduce the cost needed to store data and the time needed to transmit data when required. In this paper, we present a new hybrid watermarking scheme for DICOM images. In our scheme, two well-known techniques are combined to gain the advantages of both and fulfill the requirements of authentication and data hiding. The scheme divides the images into two parts, the region of interest (ROI) and the region of non-interest (RONI). Patient's data are embedded into ROI using a reversible technique based on difference expansion, while tamper detection and recovery data are embedded into RONI using a robust technique based on discrete wavelet transform. The experimental results show the ability of hiding patient's data with a very good visual quality, while ROI, the most important area for diagnosis, is retrieved exactly at the receiver side. The scheme also shows some robustness against certain levels of salt and pepper and cropping noise.
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