WaterMed: A watermarking method for medical digital images

Issue title: Selected papers from the International Conference on Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, e-Business, and Applications, 2004

Guest editors: Narayan C. Debnath

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Karoui, Syrine^{a; *} | El Kadhi, Nabil^b

Affiliations: [a] LARODEC Laboratory, ISG – University of Tunis, 41, Avenue de la Liberté, Cité Bouchoucha, 2000 Le Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia | [b] L.E.R.I.A. Laboratory, EPITECH, 24, Rue Pasteur, 94270 Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: karouisyrine@yahoo.fr.

Abstract: In this paper, we present a technique about digital documents protection, known under the term watermarking. The main idea is to illustrate a new and useful application of watermarking technique in medical field. We mainly focus on mammography images and diagnosis. In fact, mammography analysis necessitates more than one diagnosis. Experts are in general a bit influenced by any colleague point of view. Our WaterMed solution is used to insert a diagnosis in a digital mammography in order to protect both the diagnosis and the mammography. We particularly focus on printing and scanning effects protection due to the fact that medical images are exposed to such processes.

Keywords: Watermarking, spatial domain, frequency domain, psychovisual mask, 2-D cyclic model, fourier transform, “template”

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2006-6S211

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 6, no. s2, pp. S337-S347, 2006