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A New Blind Medical Image Watermarking Based on Weber Descriptors and Arnold Chaotic Map

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Protecting the personal patient’s information in distributed health infrastructures seems to be a crucial task. As a solution of this issue, image watermarking is widely used to secure and prevent the content alteration. Moreover, it is necessary to find a new blind watermarking technique way that could decrease the latency and preserve the quality of medical images. This paper presents a new watermarking technique for medical image. Our technique consists in combining the DCT transform, Weber descriptors (WDs) and Arnold chaotic map. This combination brings three significant steps. First, the watermark image is scrambled using Arnold chaotic map. Second, the DCT is performed on each medical image block, and the watermark data are embedded in the DCT middle- band coefficients of each block. Finally, a new embedding and extracting technique is proposed, based on WDs without any loss by selecting the right coefficients. We improve the robustness of the proposed algorithm against several scenarios of attacks such as noising, filtering and JPEG compression. The obtained results make our algorithm eligible to be practicable.

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    Abdallah Soualmi & Adel Alti

  2. Lab-STICC (UMR CNRS 6285), University of Bretagne Occidentale, 20 Avenue Victor Le Gorgeu, BP 817 - CS 93837, 29238, Brest Cedex, France

    Lamri Laouamer

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Soualmi, A., Alti, A. & Laouamer, L. A New Blind Medical Image Watermarking Based on Weber Descriptors and Arnold Chaotic Map. Arab J Sci Eng 43, 7893–7905 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-018-3246-7

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