Robust zero-watermarking algorithm for medical images based on SIFT and Bandelet-DCT

The gradual improvement of traditional medicare in the cloud has greatly promoted the development of medical enterprise. Meanwhile, problems such as the leakage of patients’ personal information, the theft, and tamper of medical images transmitted in the cloud have become increasingly prominent. To...

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Published inMultimedia tools and applications Vol. 81; no. 12; pp. 16863 - 16879
Main Authors Fang, Yangxiu, Liu, Jing, Li, Jingbing, Cheng, Jieren, Hu, Jiabin, Yi, Dan, Xiao, Xiliang, Bhatti, Uzair Aslam
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.05.2022
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Algorithms
Chaos theory
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Cryptography
Data Structures and Information Theory
Discrete cosine transform
Feature extraction
Image transmission
Leakage
Medical imaging
Multimedia Information Systems
Robustness
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems
Theft
Watermarking
Zero-watermarking
Medical images
Robustness
Bandelet-DCT
Scale invariant feature transform
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Summary:The gradual improvement of traditional medicare in the cloud has greatly promoted the development of medical enterprise. Meanwhile, problems such as the leakage of patients’ personal information, the theft, and tamper of medical images transmitted in the cloud have become increasingly prominent. To solve the above problems, a novel zero-watermarking algorithm for medical images based on bandelet and discrete cosine transform (Bandelet-DCT) is proposed. First, Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is performed on the original medical image for extracting the features as the preprocessing step. Second, the chaotic system tent map is used to encrypt the watermark which contained patients’ information. Then, Bandelet-DCT is applied to extract the visual feature vectors of medical images. Finally, the watermark embedding and extraction are realized by combining zero-watermarking technology and cryptography related technology. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has strong robustness and can effectively solve the problem of information leakage. It has a strong anti-attack ability, good robustness, and certain application prospects.
ISSN:1380-7501
1573-7721
DOI:10.1007/s11042-022-12592-x