Rashid, A.; Salamat, N.; Prasath, V. An Algorithm for Data Hiding in Radiographic Images and EPHI/R Application. Technologies 2018, 6, 7, doi:10.3390/technologies6010007.
Rashid, A.; Salamat, N.; Prasath, V. An Algorithm for Data Hiding in Radiographic Images and EPHI/R Application. Technologies 2018, 6, 7, doi:10.3390/technologies6010007.
Rashid, A.; Salamat, N.; Prasath, V. An Algorithm for Data Hiding in Radiographic Images and EPHI/R Application. Technologies 2018, 6, 7, doi:10.3390/technologies6010007.
Rashid, A.; Salamat, N.; Prasath, V. An Algorithm for Data Hiding in Radiographic Images and EPHI/R Application. Technologies 2018, 6, 7, doi:10.3390/technologies6010007.
Abstract
Telemedicine is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for clinical health care from a distance. The exchange of radiographic images and electronic patient health information/records (ePHI/R) for diagnostic purposes has the risk of confidentiality, ownership identity, and authenticity. In this paper, a data hiding technique for ePHI/R is proposed. The color information in the cover image is used for key generation, and stego-images are produced with ideal case. As a result, the whole stego-system is perfectly secure. This method includes the features of watermarking and steganography techniques. The method is applied to radiographic images. For the radiographic images, this method resembles watermarking, which is an ePHI/R data system. Experiments show promising results for the application of this method to radiographic images in ePHI/R for both transmission and storage purpose.
Keywords
information and communication technology; electronic health record (HER); entropy; region of interest; region of non-interest; telemedicine
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems
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