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Digital Watermarking in Telemedicine an Example from ECG - Review of Challenges, Methods and Applications

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Innovations in Biomedical Engineering

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Despite fast growth of scope and availability of telemedicine, the concern of data security still remains one of crucial unresolved problems. This paper presents a review of solutions applied to ECG watermarking in both: local area and wide area networks. Digital watermarking provides a simple yet effective way of data protection against unauthorized access and modification, authentication of the sender and secret data containers for additional data. Thanks to a thorough, cardiology-oriented data analysis, all this is possible without alteration of medical content of the record. The review is followed by a discussion of their features and hierarchy in aspect of personalized telemedicine of cardiovascular diseases. It is possible to code in this transmission any other information. Why not to invent a new way of watermarking? This paper shows selected results of the work about this topic.

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This scientific work is supported by the AGH University of Science and Technology in year 2016 as a research project No. 11.11.120.612.

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    Agnieszka Świerkosz

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  1. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Marek Gzik

  2. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Zabrze, Poland

    Ewaryst Tkacz

  3. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Zbigniew Paszenda

  4. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Ewa Piętka

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Świerkosz, A. (2017). Digital Watermarking in Telemedicine an Example from ECG - Review of Challenges, Methods and Applications. In: Gzik, M., Tkacz, E., Paszenda, Z., Piętka, E. (eds) Innovations in Biomedical Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 526. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47154-9_29

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