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Visual Sharing Protection Method for Medical Images

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Due to frequent occurrences of information security event, the secure cryptographic techniques have attracted much attention in recent years. Image sharing is a secure and fault-tolerant method for protecting digital images, which can reduce the risk of information loss. In this paper, a new visual sharing method is proposed for protecting the security of the medical images. The patient information is firstly embedded into a medical image. Then the medical image with patient information can be divided into several shared images and protected by different participator. The original patient information and medical image can be retrieved by collecting the shared images. Experimental results can demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the anonymous referees and the editor for their valuable opinions. This research was partially supported by National Science Council of the Republic of China under grants NSC 101-2221-E-539-005-.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology, Chungli, Taoyuan, 320, Taiwan

    Wei-Kuei Chen

  2. Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Army Academy R.O.C., Chungli, Taoyuan, 320, Taiwan

    Hao-Kuan Tso

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Chen, WK., Tso, HK. Visual Sharing Protection Method for Medical Images. J Med Syst 37, 9900 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-012-9900-9

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