title: Digital watermarking in telemedicine applications--towards enhanced data security and accessibility.
abstract: Implementing telemedical solutions has become a trend amongst the various research teams at an international level. Yet, contemporary information access and distribution technologies raise critical issues that urgently need to be addressed, especially those related to security. The paper suggests the use of watermarking in telemedical applications in order to enhance security of the transmitted sensitive medical data, familiarizes the users with a telemedical system and a watermarking module that have already been developed, and proposes an architecture that will enable the integration of the two systems, taking into account a variety of use cases and application scenarios.
authors.affiliation: Biomed. Eng. Lab., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece. agiakoum@biomed.ntua.gr
authors.forename: Aggeliki L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Giakoumaki
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Perakis
authors.forename: Anastassios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tagaris
authors.forename: Dimitris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koutsouris
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D003199:Computer Systems; D003201:Computers; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods