title: Transmission and 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 is encrypted before interleaving with images to ensure greater security. The graphical signals are interleaved with the image. Two types of error control-coding techniques are proposed to enhance reliability of transmission and storage of medical images interleaved with patient information. Transmission and storage scenarios are simulated with and without error control coding and a qualitative as well as quantitative interpretation of the reliability enhancement resulting from the use of various commonly used error control codes such as repetitive, and (7,4) Hamming code is provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of ECE, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, 535 Clement Road, 08-03-09 Singapore 599 489, Republic of Singapore. aru@np.edu.sg
authors.forename: Rajendra
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Acharya U
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Subbanna Bhat
authors.forename: Sathish
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Lim Choo
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Min
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004562:Electrocardiography; D007255:Information Services; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized