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A new robust and fragile scheme based on chaotic maps and dwt for medical image security

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Medical image security includes copyright protection, authentication, data integrity and confidentiality simultaneously. In this article, a new robust and fragile medical image security scheme has been introduced. The Beddington, Free and Lawton (BFL) map and the Hénon map based image encryption scheme is brought out for confidentiality. Further, a Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)-based image watermarking scheme is developed for copyright protection, authentication and data integrity. The proposed scheme is essentially robust and retrievable in terms of the watermark; however, it is highly sensitive and irretrievable with reference to the host image. The scheme separates the host image in Region of Interest (ROI) and Region of Non-Interest (RONI) parts, and it embeds the encoded message inside the RONI part. In addituon, the proposed scheme does not need any side information for message extraction. The performance of the scheme has been successfully tested and verified by several well known parameters. Moreover, the extensive experimental results exhibit the strength and effectiveness of the proposed technique with respect to the other state-of-the-art existing techniques.

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  1. Techno Engineering College Banipur, Habra, West Bengal, 743233, India

    Supriyo De

  2. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700 032, India

    Jaydeb Bhaumik

  3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Nadia, West Bengal, 741 249, India

    Debasis Giri

  4. Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 500 032, India

    Ashok Kumar Das

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De, S., Bhaumik, J., Giri, D. et al. A new robust and fragile scheme based on chaotic maps and dwt for medical image security. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 11753–11792 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-13585-6

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