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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2015.4.5.231

Reversible Watermarking based on Predicted Error Histogram for Medical Imagery  

Oh, Gi-Tae (금오공과대학교 컴퓨터소프트웨어공학과)
Jang, Han-Byul (금오공과대학교 컴퓨터소프트웨어공학과)
Do, Um-Ji (금오공과대학교 컴퓨터소프트웨어공학과)
Lee, Hae-Yeoun (금오공과대학교 컴퓨터소프트웨어공학과)
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KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering / v.4, no.5, 2015 , pp. 231-240 More about this Journal
Abstract
Medical imagery require to protect the privacy with preserving the quality of the original contents. Therefore, reversible watermarking is a solution for this purpose. Previous researches have focused on general imagery and achieved high capacity and high quality. However, they raise a distortion over entire image and hence are not applicable to medical imagery which require to preserve the quality of the objects. In this paper, we propose a novel reversible watermarking for medical imagery, which preserve the quality of the objects and achieves high capacity. First, object and background region is segmented and then predicted error histogram-based reversible watermarking is applied for each region. For the efficient watermark embedding with small distortion in the object region, the embedding level at object region is set as low while the embedding level at background region is set as high. In experiments, the proposed algorithm is compared with the previous predicted error histogram-based algorithm in aspects of embedding capacity and perceptual quality. Results support that the proposed algorithm performs well over the previous algorithm.
Keywords
Medical Imagery; Reversible Watermarking; Predicted Error Histogram; Object and Background Segmentation;
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