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A RONI Based Visible Watermarking Approach for Medical Image Authentication

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Nowadays medical data in terms of image files are often exchanged between different hospitals for use in telemedicine and diagnosis. Visible watermarking being extensively used for Intellectual Property identification of such medical images, leads to serious issues if failed to identify proper regions for watermark insertion. In this paper, the Region of Non-Interest (RONI) based visible watermarking for medical image authentication is proposed. In this technique, to RONI of the cover medical image is first identified using Human Visual System (HVS) model. Later, watermark logo is visibly inserted into RONI of the cover medical image to get watermarked medical image. Finally, the watermarked medical image is compared with the original medical image for measurement of imperceptibility and authenticity of proposed scheme. The experimental results showed that this proposed scheme reduces the computational complexity and improves the PSNR when compared to many existing schemes.

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  1. C. U. Shah University, City, Wadhwan, Gujarat, India

    Rohit Thanki & Vedvyas Dwivedi

  2. Department of ECE, K. S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Surekha Borra

  3. E. C. Department, Atmiya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajkot, India

    Komal Borisagar

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Thanki, R., Borra, S., Dwivedi, V. et al. A RONI Based Visible Watermarking Approach for Medical Image Authentication. J Med Syst 41, 143 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-017-0795-3

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