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This paper describes a non-blind, imperceptible and highly robust hybrid Medical Image Watermarking (MIW) technique for a range of medical data management issues. The method simultaneously addresses medical information security, content authentication, safe archiving and controlled access retrieval. We propose the use of Contourlet Transform (CLT) followed by the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to achieve higher robustness and imperceptibility. Experimental results and performance comparisons confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed scheme.
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Das, S., Kundu, M.K. (2011). Hybrid Contourlet-DCT Based Robust Image Watermarking Technique Applied to Medical Data Management. In: Kuznetsov, S.O., Mandal, D.P., Kundu, M.K., Pal, S.K. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence. PReMI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21786-9_47
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