title: Compact storage of medical images with patient information.
abstract: Digital watermarking is a technique of hiding specific identification data for copyright authentication. This technique is adapted here for interleaving patient information with medical images to reduce storage and transmission overheads. The text data are encrypted before interleaving with images to ensure greater security. The graphical signals are compressed and subsequently interleaved with the image. Differential pulse-code-modulation and adaptive-delta-modulation techniques are employed for data compression, and encryption and results are tabulated for a specific example.
authors.affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore 599489.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Acharya
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Anand
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.forename: U C
authors.initials: UC
authors.lastname: Niranjan
mesh_terms: D016494:Computer Security; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000706:statistics & numerical data