The Medical Image Watermarking Algorithm with Encryption by DCT and Logistic

Abstract

When medical images transmitted and stored in hospitals, it require strict security, confidentiality and integrity. However, the transmission of wireless and wired networks has made the medical information vulnerable to attacks like tampering, hacking etc. And the ROI of medical image is unable to tolerate significant changes. In order to dealing these problems, we have proposed an algorithm that introducing the digital watermarking technology to increase the security of medical images. The scheme uses a part of sign sequence of DCT coefficients as the feature vector of images. It can avoid the sophisticated process of finding the Region of Interest (ROI) of medical images. At the same time, the watermarking image is encrypted by Logistic Map to enhance its confidentiality. The experimental results show that the scheme has strong robustness against common attacks and geometric attacks. Moreover, compared with the existing medical watermarking techniques, it can embed much more data, less complexity and make embed multi watermarks realized.