Integrity assessment of diagnostic image content
Dominic Osborne, Derek Rogers, Derek Abbott · Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) · 2005
Wireless communication technology has provided increased opportunity for applications, such as telemedicine. This work focuses on the end application of teleradiology, targeting the communication of digital diagnostic images to and from remote locations for diagnosis and treatment. Medical images must be compressed to a minimally acceptable file size for ease of transmission and prompt assistance One of the most pressing challenges that remains is a method that can verify the integrity of these image types in a mobile environment. An authentication watermarking technique is presented in this paper that extracts critical feature information from the ROI and embeds a series of robust watermarks into the ROB. This provides a novel way of authenticating diagnostic information, while surviving acceptable levels of JPEG compression.