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Medical image encryption algorithm based on Latin square and memristive chaotic system

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Medical image encryption may help protect medical privacy. In this paper, we propose a new medical image encryption scheme combined Latin square and chaotic system. The architecture of permutation and diffusion is adopted. Using Latin square and the plain image information, permutation based on plain image and Latin square (PPILS) is presented to shuffle the pixels of the plain image to different rows and columns, effectively weaken the strong correlations between adjacent pixels, and different images have different permutation effect. To improve the encryption effect, bi-directional adaptive diffusion is proposed to spread little change of plain images to the entire pixels of cipher images. Chaotic sequences employed in permutation and diffusion are generated from the four-dimensional memristive chaotic system, its initial values are computed by SHA 256 hash value of the plain image, and thus the proposed algorithm may withstand known-plaintext and chosen-plaintext attacks. Simulation results and performance analyses show that our image encryption scheme has good security and robustness, and it may be applied for medical image encryption applications.

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Acknowledgments

All the authors are deeply grateful to the editors for smooth and fast handling of the manuscript. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions to improve the quality of this paper. The authors also thank Dr. Daojun Han for his hard work in the revised manuscript. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41571417, U1604145, 61802111, 61872125, 61871175), Science and Technology Foundation of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 182102210027, 182102410051), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2018 T110723, 2016 M602235), Key Scientific Research Projects for Colleges and Universities of Henan Province (Grant No. 19A413001), the Research Foundation of Henan University (Grant No. xxjc20140006), and Engineering Research Center of Mobile Communications, Ministry of Education (Grant No. cqupt-mct-201901).

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  1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Xiuli Chai & Jitong Zhang

  2. School of Software, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, China

    Zhihua Gan

  3. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China

    Yushu Zhang

  4. College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China

    Yushu Zhang

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Chai, X., Zhang, J., Gan, Z. et al. Medical image encryption algorithm based on Latin square and memristive chaotic system. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 35419–35453 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08168-x

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