Reversible Medical Image Watermarking For Tamper Detection And Recovery With Run Length Encoding Compression

Digital watermarking in medical images can ensure the authenticity and integrity of the image. This design paper reviews some existing watermarking schemes and proposes a reversible tamper detection and recovery watermarking scheme. Watermark data from ROI (Region Of Interest) are stored in RONI (Region Of Non Interest). The embedded watermark allows tampering detection and tampered image recovery. The watermark is also reversible and data compression technique was used to allow higher embedding capacity.

Authors:

• Siau-Chuin Liew
• Siau-Way Liew
• Jasni Mohd Zain

Keywords:

• data compression
• medical image
• reversible
• tamperdetection and recovery
• watermark.

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