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Finger Biometrics for e-Health Security

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Driven by the needs of several health care organizations to offer better health care services in the economic and convenient way, electronic Health (e-Health) has modernized the health care commerce. e-Health security issues are mainly centered on user authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality, and patient privacy protection. Biometrics technology addresses the above security problems by providing reliable and secure user authentication compared to the traditional approaches. Motivated by trustworthiness of biometrics, we suggest a finger based authentication system which can have good scope in health security. The finger dorsal skin and vein patterns are largely considered as unique to humans, serve as the modern basis of forensic science and have been employed in various commercial applications. The contact-less acquisition of finger under visible or infrared light have been used to establish identity of individuals and commonly referred to as the finger knuckle and finger vein identification. The chapter concludes that biometrics technology has considerable opportunities for application in e-Health due to its ability to provide reliable security solutions.

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the Ph.D. Thesis “Multimodal Biometric Authentication using Palmer and Dorsal Hand Patterns” submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, India as well as journal paper “Deepknuckle: revealing the human identity” published in Multimedia Tools and Applications and conference paper “FKQNet: a biometric sample quality estimation network using transfer learning” published in IEEE International Conference on Image Information Processing.

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    Gaurav Jaswal & Aditya Nigam

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    Ravinder Nath

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Jaswal, G., Nigam, A., Nath, R. (2019). Finger Biometrics for e-Health Security. In: Singh, A., Mohan, A. (eds) Handbook of Multimedia Information Security: Techniques and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15887-3_28

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