Development of medical image watermarking and extraction schemes for secure telemedicine

Abstract

Proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are making newlinehuge impact on the society by enabling a wide range of value added data services such as newlineE-commerce, E-banking, E-governance, E-learning, E-health etc.. Strong efforts are newlinebeing made worldwide in the direction of providing basic facilities such as health and newlineeducation to the under privileged population residing in remote and rural areas through newlinethe use of emerging ICT paradigm. Telemedicine has emerged as a popular healthcare newlineservice model for efficient healthcare delivery in far flung remote and rural areas through newlineinnovative application of ICT. Availability of such services on digital platform can make newlinesweeping changes in the society by bringing increased reachability, transparency, newlineaccountability, speed, comfort and quality. However, transmission of huge amount of newlinesuch information over open communication channels demands strict information security newlinerequirements in terms of data integrity, availability, authentication, and copyright newlineprotection. Therefore, with the evolution of various sensitive data services, secure newlinetransmission and storage of information has become prime concern for the researchers newlineand technologists. Telemedicine requires storage and transmission of huge medical data newlinein the form of Electronic Patient Records (EPR), radiological data, interactive video newlineconferencing etc. Transmission of multimedia medical data over an open communication newlinechannel poses serious threats that can severely affect authenticity, integrity, and newlineconfidentiality of the data. Moreover, this exchange of medical images through insecure newlineopen networks may cause undesirable modification in medical images which may lead to newlineerroneous diagnostic conclusions. newline