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Robust and Secure Watermarking Technique for E-Health Applications

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Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020) (SoCPaR 2020)

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Advancement in information and communication technology in health sector has been developed at a rapid pace, and has consequently improved its different services. Securing patients’s health documents becomes crucial and researchers have investigated more than one privacy measures involving the access control, the security and the integrity of these documents. In this paper, we propose a novel QR-code-based watermarking technique for medical images. The generated QR code pattern is the result of converting a watermarked image which is obtained by embedding the concatenation of diagnostic results and a specific collusion-secure code to the original image.

The proposed scheme is a two-stage scheme which has essentially a two fold purpose: at a first step, we propose to embed successively two types of watermarks to the image and then to convert it to a set of QR codes to ensure simultaneously and independently its protection. At a second step, we apply the tracing process whose target is the identification of eventual hackers by extracting the hidden identifier from the suspicious document and analyse it. Experimental assessments show that the proposed scheme provides good results in terms of security, robustness and tracing accuracy constraints.

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  1. National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS), University of Sfax, BP 1173, 3038, Sfax, Tunisia

    Hedi Choura, Faten Chaabane, Tarek Frikha & Mouna Baklouti

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  2. Systems Innovation, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Auburn, WA, USA

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Choura, H., Chaabane, F., Frikha, T., Baklouti, M. (2021). Robust and Secure Watermarking Technique for E-Health Applications. In: Abraham, A., et al. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020). SoCPaR 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1383. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73689-7_94

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