High-capacity multiple regions of interest watermarking for medical images

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-1-2016

Abstract

Watermarking techniques have been widely used for copyright protection, broadcast monitoring, and data authentication in medical images to protect patient's private information against tampering by unauthorized persons. A region of interest (ROI) in a medical image contains valuable diagnostic information, and thus must be preserved to avoid medical misdiagnosis. Current state-of-the-art medical image watermarking techniques only allow single-ROI data preservation. Aiming for high embedding capacity and high image fidelity, we present a novel medical image watermarking scheme which allows multiple ROIs to be selected and kept lossless, whereas regions of non-interest (RONIs) are collated for watermark embedding. The watermark is compressed, and the embedding is conducted in frequency domain to avoid piracy. Experimental results show that the proposed technique has significantly achieved high-capacity and high-PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio) as compared against eight existing similar techniques. In addition, our technique allows flexible adjustment on a variable that controls the tradeoff between image fidelity and embedding capacity.

Identifier

84978524936 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Information Sciences

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2016.07.015

ISSN

00200255

First Page

648

Last Page

659

Volume

367-368

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