This book presents medical image watermarking techniques and algorithms
for telemedicine and other emerging applications. This book emphasizes
on medical image watermarking to ensure the authenticity of transmitted
medical information. It begins with an introduction of digital
watermarking, important characteristics, novel applications, different
watermarking attacks and standard benchmark tools. This book also covers
spatial and transform domain medical image watermarking techniques and
their merits and limitations.
The authors have developed improved/novel watermarking techniques for
telemedicine applications that offer higher robustness, better
perceptual quality and increased embedding capacity and secure
watermark. The suggested methods may find potential applications in the
prevention of patient identity theft and health data management issues
which is a growing concern in telemedicine applications.
This book provides a sound platform for understanding
the medical image watermarking paradigm for researchers in the field and
advanced-level students. Industry professionals working in this field,
as well as other emerging applications demanding robust and secure
watermarking will find this book useful as a reference.