Title: Medical image protection using diffusion, substitution and reversible data hiding based on prediction

Authors: L. Mancy; S. Maria Celestin Vigila

Addresses: Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil 629180, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Information Technology, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Kumaracoil 629180, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: Owing to the expanding benefit for tele-health amenities have developed awareness in the practice of medicinal image protection expertise. It mostly condensed with patient report that are cautious and must only offered to allowable personality. So the medicinal image safety becomes a very great complexity when victim data are fetched through the open system. At first, the secret key of 128 bit size is generated by image histogram and the medical image is encrypted by diffusion and substitution process. Then the secret key is embedded within the cipher image by the process of steganography to obtain key embedded cipher image. At last, the patient details are embedded into the key embedded cipher image and later on, the patient details and the key is extracted. Finally, using the extracted key, decryption operation is performed to get the original image.

Keywords: histogram; encryption; decryption; steganography; reversible data hiding; diffusion; substitution.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2019.103167

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2019 Vol.14 No.4, pp.238 - 249

Received: 02 Jun 2018
Accepted: 07 Apr 2019
Published online: 21 Oct 2019 *

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