Medical Image Watermarking Technique Using Image Interpolation in Transform Domain

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    • S Priya
    • B Santhi
    • J Raja Mohan
    2018-07-20
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.12.16461
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  • In telemedicine, medical data are shared across the world among different specialists for various purposes through an unsecured medium. So there is a need to protect the medical data during transmission. With the help of image watermarking techniques, medical images are protected along with the electronic patient information (EPI). This paper proposes a medical image watermarking, by applying wavelet transform, using an interpolation technique. EPI data is embedded within the transformed medical image to generate a watermarked image. At the extraction side, EPI data are extracted and medical image is reconstructed without any loss. The performance of the proposed method is analyzed using a peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), mean absolute error (MAE) and structural similarity index (SSIM).   The experimental result shows that the proposed method gives better results.

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    Priya, S., Santhi, B., & Raja Mohan, J. (2018). Medical Image Watermarking Technique Using Image Interpolation in Transform Domain. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.12), 711-714. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.12.16461