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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2013.2.7.487

Fuzzy Clustering Based Medical Image Watermarking  

Alamgir, Nyma (울산대학교 전기공학부)
Kim, Jong-Myon (울산대학교 전기공학부)
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KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering / v.2, no.7, 2013 , pp. 487-494 More about this Journal
Abstract
Medical image watermarking has received extensive attention as wide security services in the healthcare information system. This paper proposes a blind medical image watermarking approach on the segmented gray-matter (GM) images by utilizing discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) along with enhanced suppressed fuzzy C-means (EnSFCM) for the optimal selection of sub-blocks position to insert a watermark. Experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms other methods in terms of peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and M-SVD. In addition, the proposed approach shows better robustness than other methods in normalized correlation (NC) values against several attacks, such as noise addition, filtering, JPEG compression, blurring, histogram equalization, and cropping.
Keywords
Medical Image Watermarking; Fuzzy C-means; MRI Image; Discrete Wavelet Transform; Discrete Cosine Transform;
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