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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTB.2011.18B.6.385

Lossless Deformation of Brain Images for Concealing Identification  

Lee, Hyo-Jong (전북대학교 컴퓨터공학부 영상정보신기술연구센터)
Yu, Du Ruo (전북대학교 컴퓨터공학부)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartB / v.18B, no.6, 2011 , pp. 385-388 More about this Journal
Abstract
Patients' privacy protection is a heated issue in medical business, as medical information in digital format transmit everywhere through networks without any limitation. A current protection method for brain images is to deface from the brain image for patient's privacy. However, the defacing process often removes important brain voxels so that the defaced brain image is damaged for medical analysis. An ad-hoc method is proposed to conceal patient's identification by adding cylindrical mask, while the brain keep all important brain voxels. The proposed lossless deformation of brain image is verified not to loose any important voxels. Futhermore, the masked brain image is proved not to be recognized by others.
Keywords
MRI; Facial Mask; Anonymous Facial Model; Cylinder Mask;
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