Sonika C. Rathi and Vandana S. Inamdar, Pune University, India

Telemedicine is a well-known application, where enormous amount of medical data need to be securely transfer over the public network and manipulate effectively. Medical image watermarking is an appropriate method used for enhancing security and authentication of medical data, which is crucial and used for further diagnosis and reference. This paper discusses the available medical image watermarking methods for protecting and authenticating medical data. The paper focuses on algorithms for application of watermarking technique on Region of Non Interest (RONI) of the medical image preserving Region of Interest (ROI). The medical images can be transferred securely by embedding watermarks in RONI allowing verification of the legitimate changes at the receiving end without affecting ROI.

ROI & RONI, Segmentation, Authentication, security, medical confidentiality