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A multi-layered security framework for medical imaging: integrating compressed digital watermarking and blockchain

Dec 06, 2024

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Published in: IEEE ACCESS

Publisher: IEEE

In electronic healthcare, patient medical imaging data is critical for remote diagnostic procedures. The increasing demand to harness the potential of these medical images necessitates their secure sharing among various entities, including hospitals, medical institutions, and insurance companies. However, third-party access and possible manipulation make it challenging to maintain the ownership and integrity of this data. This study introduces a novel approach that combines compression, digital watermarking, symmetric encryption, and blockchain technology to protect medical images from unauthorized third-party interventions. Using the Discrete Wavelet Transform, our proposed technique embeds a compressed watermark into the host image. Specifically, the watermark is encoded into vectors and inserted into the second-level approximation, i.e., the Low-Low of the image using the Least Significant Bit

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