Verification approach for medical data in e-healthcare system based on biometric and watermarking

Abstract

Medical information is crucial in the healthcare system, and its manipulation can lead to misdiagnosis. Medical images also contain personal information for patients; hence, information security and privacy protection are paramount when transferring medical images over the Internet. Biometric approach and watermarking techniques are used to achieve this purpose. The focus of this paper was on a biometric watermarking system with a frequency domain in which the sender's iris code is employed as a sender authentication key. The privacy of the patient's information is preserved by encrypting it and embedding the key in the cover medical image created by the Discrete Wavelet Transform. The algorithm has shown that the proposed system has met previous requirements.