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Protection of Patients’ Data Privacy by Tamper Detection and Localization in Watermarked Medical Images

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020 (AISI 2020)

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Abstract

Sharing medical documents among different specialists in different hospitals has become popular as a result of modern communication technologies. Accordingly, protecting patients’ data and authenticity against any unauthorized access or modification is a must. Watermarking technique is one of the solutions to protect patients’ information against any signal processing or geometric attacks. This paper uses a tamper detection and localization watermarking technique. It embeds a Quick Response (QR) code generated from the patient’s information into a medical image. In the extraction step, it can detect if the QR image is attached or not. The proposed approach detects signal processing and geometric attacks and localizes the tamper resulting from text addition, content removal and copy and paste attacks.

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  1. Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

    Alaa H. ElSaadawy, Ahmed S. ELSayed & M. N. Al-Berry

  2. Faculty of Computers and Information Technology, Future University in Egypt, New Cairo City, Egypt

    Mohamed Roushdy

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    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  2. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland

    Adam Slowik

  3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Moravskoslezsky, Czech Republic

    Václav Snášel

  4. Rector of the Electronic Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

    Hisham El-Deeb

  5. Faculty of computers and information, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

    Fahmy M. Tolba

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ElSaadawy, A.H., ELSayed, A.S., Al-Berry, M.N., Roushdy, M. (2021). Protection of Patients’ Data Privacy by Tamper Detection and Localization in Watermarked Medical Images. In: Hassanien, A.E., Slowik, A., Snášel, V., El-Deeb, H., Tolba, F.M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020. AISI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58669-0_33

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