Curvelet Transform Based Watermarking for Telemedicine

Abstract

Now a days telemedicine is a proactive research area and gaining more engrossment. Digital transmission of medical imaging, remote evaluation and diagnosis together are termed as Telemedcine and it has increasingly gained prominence in the recent times. Remote specialist reckons intemperately on scan images or medicinal images and data of patient for devising diagnostic conclusion. While imparting a scan image (clinical picture) to remote authority, the significant part (ROI) in it may be altered by interlopers. The remote authority must recover the ROI in a clinical picture on the off chance that it has been altered. This paper presents a novel robust watermarking method founded on Curvelet Transform to recover the ROI in medical image in case it is altered. The proposed method hides ROI information inside diagnostically insignificant part in medical image through Curvelet Transform. Experiments carried out using this novel technique have proven that the ROI in medical image is restored to its original state.