A secure medical image transmission scheme aided by quantum representation

Abstract

Quantum information and quantum image processing have made immense progress in the most recent years. The proposed paper investigates the proficiency of quantum image encryption in the field of Telehealth which can be built by incorporating quantum block-based spatial transformations. The proposed quantum cryptosystem introduced two levels of security for medical image and its sensitive content. The secrecy of medical image is reinforced by choosing a plain image based initial seed values for encryption. It is found that the suggested quantum block-based scrambling can serve as a novel method for intensifying the privacy-preserving process of medical image. It additionally ensures the medical image integrity by introducing dedicated quantum encryption for ROI based regional data. With a bilateral image transmission perspective, the proposed paper introduced InterPlanetary Features based file system for proficient retrieval of medical images. The quantitative simulation and performance evaluation done on the Cancer Imaging Archive dataset manifests that the suggested quantum-based two-level security for medical images is suitable for reinforcing the confidentiality and privacy-preserving process. It also enlarges the effectiveness of quantum image processing applications in Telemedicine.