Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images

This thesis investigated the trend in the current watermarking technology of medical images which features authentication, tamper localization, and recovery. Nowadays the information system is used widely in hospitals and clinical departments globally. It is able to help the clinical professionals d...

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Main Author: Syifak Izhar, Hisham
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15249/19/Enhanced%20lsb%20watermarking%20methods%20based%20on%20scanning%20Patterns%20for%20authentication%20of%20medical%20images.pdf
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spelling my-ump-ir.152492021-11-18T03:41:57Z Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images 2016-01 Syifak Izhar, Hisham Q Science (General) T Technology (General) This thesis investigated the trend in the current watermarking technology of medical images which features authentication, tamper localization, and recovery. Nowadays the information system is used widely in hospitals and clinical departments globally. It is able to help the clinical professionals doing diagnosis, smoothen the transmission process, and store the patients' data and medical images. Since the system handles thousands of crucial medical data, a security and authentication method is seen as imperative to protect the data. Three watermarking techniques were proposed to enhance the fragile watermarking algorithm aiming at improving the numbering technique before embedding the watermark data. They are Authentication Watermarking for Grey-Scale Medical Images Using Spiral Manner Numbering (SPIRAL-LSB), Authentication Watermarking for Grey-Scale Medical Images Using Hilbert Manner Numbering (HILBERT-LSB) and Authentication Watermarking for Color Medical Images Using Hilbert Manner Numbering (HILBERT-LSB-C). All proposed methods used unique styles of numbering and mapping pixels to guarantee a good performance of the authentication system. This can be done by spreading the numbered original data as far as possible from the original locations. The watermark generating and embedding phases used the same processes in all schemes. They produced the authentication data by using simple operations, which were parity bits check and comparison between average intensity data. The schemes embedded the authentication data in the least significant bit (LSB). The embedded authentication data in the same host image were utilized to localize any tamper using block-wise approach. The method is effective since it only required a secret key and a public, chaotic mixing algorithm to recover the attacked image. 2016-01 Thesis http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15249/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15249/19/Enhanced%20lsb%20watermarking%20methods%20based%20on%20scanning%20Patterns%20for%20authentication%20of%20medical%20images.pdf pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Malaysia Pahang Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering
institution Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah
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Syifak Izhar, Hisham
Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
description This thesis investigated the trend in the current watermarking technology of medical images which features authentication, tamper localization, and recovery. Nowadays the information system is used widely in hospitals and clinical departments globally. It is able to help the clinical professionals doing diagnosis, smoothen the transmission process, and store the patients' data and medical images. Since the system handles thousands of crucial medical data, a security and authentication method is seen as imperative to protect the data. Three watermarking techniques were proposed to enhance the fragile watermarking algorithm aiming at improving the numbering technique before embedding the watermark data. They are Authentication Watermarking for Grey-Scale Medical Images Using Spiral Manner Numbering (SPIRAL-LSB), Authentication Watermarking for Grey-Scale Medical Images Using Hilbert Manner Numbering (HILBERT-LSB) and Authentication Watermarking for Color Medical Images Using Hilbert Manner Numbering (HILBERT-LSB-C). All proposed methods used unique styles of numbering and mapping pixels to guarantee a good performance of the authentication system. This can be done by spreading the numbered original data as far as possible from the original locations. The watermark generating and embedding phases used the same processes in all schemes. They produced the authentication data by using simple operations, which were parity bits check and comparison between average intensity data. The schemes embedded the authentication data in the least significant bit (LSB). The embedded authentication data in the same host image were utilized to localize any tamper using block-wise approach. The method is effective since it only required a secret key and a public, chaotic mixing algorithm to recover the attacked image.
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qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author Syifak Izhar, Hisham
author_facet Syifak Izhar, Hisham
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title Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
title_short Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
title_full Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
title_fullStr Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
title_full_unstemmed Enhanced LSB watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
title_sort enhanced lsb watermarking methods based on scanning patterns for authentication of medical images
granting_institution Universiti Malaysia Pahang
granting_department Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering
publishDate 2016
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/15249/19/Enhanced%20lsb%20watermarking%20methods%20based%20on%20scanning%20Patterns%20for%20authentication%20of%20medical%20images.pdf
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