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Article Dans Une Revue Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Année : 2011

A joint encryption/watermarking algorithm for verifying the reliability of medical images: Application to echographic images

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In this paper we propose a joint encryption/watermarking algorithm for the purpose of protecting medical images. The proposed solution gives access to the outcomes of the image integrity and of its origins as its attachment to one patient even if the image is stored encrypted. In this study, the given solution combines the RC4 stream cipher and two substitutive watermarking modulations: the Least Significant Bit Method and the Quantization Index Modulation. If watermarking and encryption are conducted jointly at the protection stage, watermark extraction and decryption can be applied independently. Experimental results achieved on 8bits encoded echographic images illustrate the overall performances of the proposed scheme. At least, a capacity rate of 1 and 0.5bits of message per pixel of image can be embedded in the spatial and the encrypted domains respectively, with a peak signal to noise ratio greater than 49dB.

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hal-00704226 , version 1 (05-06-2012)

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Dalel Bouslimi, Gouenou Coatrieux, Christian Roux. A joint encryption/watermarking algorithm for verifying the reliability of medical images: Application to echographic images. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2011, ⟨10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.09.015⟩. ⟨hal-00704226⟩
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