Effective Secure Communication of Medical Data using Watermarking and Scrambling using Arnold Transformation

Abstract: Medical records are extremely sensitive patient information and require uncompromising security during both storage and transmission. In this paper a multi secure and robustness of medical image based steganography scheme is proposed. The proposed technique provides an efficient and storage security mechanism for the protection of digital medical images. We proposed a viable watermarking technique using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) to protect the MRI medical image into a single container image. At first the given image was resized and undergo watermarking using the svd and alpha blending and then it is applied with Arnold transformation to form scrambled image and recovered finally by descrambling using Arnold transformation and inverse svd on the obtained image The quality of the recovered medical image showed acceptable visual quality. It is observed that the quality parameters are improved with acceptable PSNR compared to the existing algorithms.

Keywords: PSNR, Arnold transformation, discrete wavelet transform, SVD-Singular value decomposing.