A Semi-Reversible Watermark for Medical Image Authentication

Abstract

This paper addresses the secure storage and transmission of medical informatics in rapidly growing applications such as teleradiology and telesurgery. In particular, we propose a frequency domain digital watermarking technique that can be used to authenticate medical images in a distributed diagnosis and home healthcare environment. The most significant result of our method is the semi-reversibility property that undoes most of the degradation attributable to the watermarking process