Abstract
Medical images are transmitted to other remote places through the E-healthcare system. The protection of medical images is very crucial. Medical images need to be protected against any modification which the attacker may do through the unsecured channel. It is necessary for inspecting the integrity of the ROI (Region of Interest) of the received medical image prior to the adoption of any diagnostic decision to avoid a misdiagnosis. This paper aimed to confirm the integrity and authenticity of medical images by combining the hash signature with the watermarking technique based on the frequency domains. At first, the medical image is divided into ROI and RONI (Region of Non-Interest). The SLT and DCT transformations are employed together to extract the essential features set from ROI and then combined with EPR (Electronic Patient Registration) to produce a watermark, and then it is encoded by a chaotic map with a secret key to provide a signature. On the other hand, the RONI is mapping into randomly subblocks based on the linear system, and then the Signature is embedded in the chosen block using DWT. The hash code of the recovered image and EPR will be compared with the extracted watermark for integrity and authenticity. The experimental results demonstrate the watermark’s robustness against many of the more aggressive and geometric signal processing distortions without affecting the quality of the original medical image. In particular, compared with state-of-the-art technology, the proposed algorithm improves the average NC value larger than 0.90 under all types of attacks.
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