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Effect of Watermarking on Diagnostic Preservation of Atherosclerotic Ultrasound Video in Stroke Telemedicine

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Embedding of diagnostic and health care information requires secure encryption and watermarking. This research paper presents a comprehensive study for the behavior of some well established watermarking algorithms in frequency domain for the preservation of stroke-based diagnostic parameters. Two different sets of watermarking algorithms namely: two correlation-based (binary logo hiding) and two singular value decomposition (SVD)-based (gray logo hiding) watermarking algorithms are used for embedding ownership logo. The diagnostic parameters in atherosclerotic plaque ultrasound video are namely: (a) bulb identification and recognition which consists of identifying the bulb edge points in far and near carotid walls; (b) carotid bulb diameter; and (c) carotid lumen thickness all along the carotid artery. The tested data set consists of carotid atherosclerotic movies taken under IRB protocol from University of Indiana Hospital, USA-AtheroPoint™ (Roseville, CA, USA) joint pilot study. ROC (receiver operating characteristic) analysis was performed on the bulb detection process that showed an accuracy and sensitivity of 100 % each, respectively. The diagnostic preservation (DPsystem) for SVD-based approach was above 99 % with PSNR (Peak signal-to-noise ratio) above 41, ensuring the retention of diagnostic parameter devalorization as an effect of watermarking. Thus, the fully automated proposed system proved to be an efficient method for watermarking the atherosclerotic ultrasound video for stroke application.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Nilanjan Dey & Sheli Sinha Chaudhuri

  2. Department of Information Technology, Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India

    Nilanjan Dey & Soumyo Bose

  3. Department of ECE, Kalyani Government Engineering College, Bengal, India

    Achintya Das

  4. Radiology Department, zienda Ospedaliero Universitaria (A.O.U.) di Cagliari, Via Roma, 67, 56126, Pisa, PI, Italy

    Luca Saba

  5. CorVasc Vascular Laboratory, 8433 Harcourt Rd #100, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Shoaib Shafique

  6. Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Centre, London, UK

    Andrew Nicolaides

  7. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Andrew Nicolaides

  8. Point of Care Devices, Global Biomedical Technologies, Inc, Roseville, CA, USA

    Nilanjan Dey & Jasjit S. Suri

  9. Diagnostic and Monitoring Division, AtheroPoint™ LLC, Roseville, CA, USA

    Jasjit S. Suri

  10. Electrical Engineering Department (Affl.), Idaho State University, 921 S 8th Ave, Pocatello, ID, 83201, USA

    Jasjit S. Suri

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Dey, N., Bose, S., Das, A. et al. Effect of Watermarking on Diagnostic Preservation of Atherosclerotic Ultrasound Video in Stroke Telemedicine. J Med Syst 40, 91 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-016-0451-3

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