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Embedding electronic patient information in clinical images: an improved and efficient reversible data hiding technique

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Reversible Data Hiding (RDH) is one of the popular and highly recommended methods to enhance medical data security or Electronic Patient Record (EPR) privacy. In medical field, care must be taken to maintain the confidentiality of information within the clinical images without causing any degradation to the original quality of the medical image, which corresponds to the diagnosis of a patient. In this presented approach, we introduce a variation to the RDH scheme, which enables higher data capacity to be embedded without causing any significant impact on the quality of medical images. Rhombus Mean Interpolation technique is employed for predicting the interpolated points in the cover image instead of Pixel To Block (PTB) conversion procedure. We used the data related to the patient diagnosis as the secret information to be embedded in medical images, checksum for 2 x 2 non-overlapping block is also embedded for tamper detection and content authentication at the receiver. Validated the quality of the marked image after integration, in terms of PSNR and SSIM metrics. It is observed to have significant improvement in Embedding capacity up to 3 bpp and better image quality compared to the existing schemes.

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Geetha, R., Geetha, S. Embedding electronic patient information in clinical images: an improved and efficient reversible data hiding technique. Multimed Tools Appl 79, 12869–12890 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08484-2

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