Relevance of watermarking in medical imaging

Gouenou Coatrieux (1) , Henri Maître (2) , Bulent Sankur (3) , Yann Rolland (4) , René Collorec (4)

1 ITI - Département Image et Traitement Information
2 TSI - Département Traitement du Signal et des Images
3 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department (Bogazici University )
4 LTSI - Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image

Because of the importance of the security issues in the management of medical information, we suggest the use of watermarking techniques to complete the existing measures for protecting medical images. We discuss the necessary requirements for such a system to be accepted by medical staff and its complementary role with respect with existing security systems. We present different scenarios, one devoted to the authentication and tracing of the images, the second to the integrity control of the patient's record.

Mots clés: Copy protection; Watermarking; Data integrity; Medical image processing

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Gouenou Coatrieux, Henri Maître, Bulent Sankur, Yann Rolland, René Collorec. Relevance of watermarking in medical imaging. IEEE EMBS Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, Nov 2000, Arlington, United States. pp.250 - 255, ⟨10.1109/ITAB.2000.892396⟩. ⟨hal-02139366⟩