Title: An efficient technique for secure transmission of the region of interest in medical images

Authors: Zahia Brahimi; Mohamed-Khireddine Kholladi; Hamid Bessalah; Amina Tarabet; Fadila Mostefai

Addresses: Ministère de la Poste et des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication, Algiers, Algeria ' Directeur du Laboratoire MISC, Université Mentouri Constantine, Constantine, Algeria ' Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, BP 17, Lotissement 20 Août 1956, Baba Hassen, Algiers, Algeria ' Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, BP 17, Lotissement 20 Août 1956, Baba Hassen, Algiers, Algeria ' Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées, BP 17, Lotissement 20 Août 1956, Baba Hassen, Algiers, Algeria

Abstract: In this paper, we propose three ROI (Region of Interest) selective encryption schemes to achieve secure access for medical images. The security in the region of interest is ensured by using inversion or/and permutation function as cryptographic tools. The three schemes are performed during compression. Only few selected MSBs (Most Significant Bit-Planes) of the ROI's codeblocks are concerned by the encryption. The first permutation scheme incurs a little loss on compression efficiency. The second scheme, inverts a set of important bit-planes of each ROI codeblock with no compression overhead. The third scheme combines the two schemes performing inversion and permutation of the selected ROI's MSBs. The size of encrypted bitstream is not changed. Moreover, the JPEG 2000 codestream resulting from the encryption process remains compliant with the JPEG 2000 format. Decryption is provided of course by our decoder which requires the same function to recover the original medical image.

Keywords: cryptography; encryption schemes; secure transmission; JPEG2000 compression; selective encryption; permutation; inversion; medical images; MSBs; bitplanes; transmission security; region of interest.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSISE.2014.060062

International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering, 2014 Vol.7 No.2, pp.116 - 125

Received: 30 Jul 2011
Accepted: 01 Jun 2012
Published online: 27 Oct 2014 *

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