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International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security (국제컴퓨터통신보호논문지학회)
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A New Robust Blind Crypto-Watermarking Method for Medical Images Security

  • Mohamed Boussif (Sciences Faculty of Tunis, Laboratory of analysis and processing of electrical and energy Systems, University of Tunis El-Manar) ;
  • Oussema Boufares (Sciences Faculty of Tunis, Laboratory of analysis and processing of electrical and energy Systems, University of Tunis El-Manar) ;
  • Aloui Noureddine (Sciences Faculty of Tunis, Laboratory of analysis and processing of electrical and energy Systems, University of Tunis El-Manar) ;
  • Adnene Cherif (Sciences Faculty of Tunis, Laboratory of analysis and processing of electrical and energy Systems, University of Tunis El-Manar)
  • Received : 2024.03.05
  • Published : 2024.03.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel robust blind crypto-watermarking method for medical images security based on hiding of DICOM patient information (patient name, age...) in the medical imaging. The DICOM patient information is encrypted using the AES standard algorithm before its insertion in the medical image. The cover image is divided in blocks of 8x8, in each we insert 1-bit of the encrypted watermark in the hybrid transform domain by applying respectively the 2D-LWT (Lifting wavelet transforms), the 2D-DCT (discrete cosine transforms), and the SVD (singular value decomposition). The scheme is tested by applying various attacks such as noise, filtering and compression. Experimental results show that no visible difference between the watermarked images and the original images and the test against attack shows the good robustness of the proposed algorithm.

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Acknowledgement

We are grateful to the reviewers for their valuable comments that helped us to improve the quality of the paper.

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