A Semi-Reversible Watermark for Medical Image Authentication

Author

Ahmed, Farid ; Moskowitz, Ira S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC

fYear

2006

fDate

2-4 April 2006

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

62

Abstract

This paper addresses the secure storage and transmission of medical informatics in rapidly growing applications such as teleradiology and telesurgery. In particular, we propose a frequency domain digital watermarking technique that can be used to authenticate medical images in a distributed diagnosis and home healthcare environment. The most significant result of our method is the semi-reversibility property that undoes most of the degradation attributable to the watermarking process

Keywords

biomedical imaging; health care; medical information systems; message authentication; telemedicine; watermarking; distributed diagnosis; frequency domain digital watermarking technique; home healthcare; information security; medical image authentication; medical informatics; medical information storage; medical information transmission; semireversible watermark; teleradiology; telesurgery; Authentication; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical informatics; Degradation; Frequency domain analysis; Information security; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Protection; Watermarking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare, 2006. D2H2. 1st Transdisciplinary Conference on

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0058-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DDHH.2006.1624797

Filename

1624797