title: A novel medical image protection scheme using a 3-dimensional chaotic system.
abstract: Recently, great concerns have been raised regarding the issue of medical image protection due to the increasing demand for telemedicine services, especially the teleradiology service. To meet this challenge, a novel chaos-based approach is suggested in this paper. To address the security and efficiency problems encountered by many existing permutation-diffusion type image ciphers, the new scheme utilizes a single 3D chaotic system, Chen's chaotic system, for both permutation and diffusion. In the permutation stage, we introduce a novel shuffling mechanism, which shuffles each pixel in the plain image by swapping it with another pixel chosen by two of the three state variables of Chen's chaotic system. The remaining variable is used for quantification of pseudorandom keystream for diffusion. Moreover, the selection of state variables is controlled by plain pixel, which enhances the security against known/chosen-plaintext attack. Thorough experimental tests are carried out and the results indicate that the proposed scheme provides an effective and efficient way for real-time secure medical image transmission over public networks.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Chong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Gao-Yuan
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: The General Hospital of Shenyang Military Command, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Ou
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bian
authors.affiliation: School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
authors.forename: Wei-Min
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.affiliation: TeraRecon, Foster City, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Hong-Feng
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016494:Computer Security; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D017216:Telemedicine; D013997:Time Factors