DESIGN ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF RELIABLE AND SECURE TRANSMISSION OF MEDICAL IMAGES

Mohd.Javed Khan, Asok Bhattacharyya, Monuwer Alam

Abstract: The transmission of digital image data now a day’s become a routine and necessity of our society .The amount of digital medical data is increasing rapidly on internet. Now it is become necessity of the secure and reliable digital image data transfer for the fast and efficient diagnosis in the medical world. A lot of data is to be transferred between hospital where the major portion of the data is the medical images, patient history, and pervious diagnosis record. Digital Imaging and communication in medicine (DICOM) standard are used to solve this problem where the patient records are attached. To make the transmission robust the patient record are embedded in the medical image using digital water marking technique for the reliable and secure transmission. The various type of noise may corrupt the medical image data during transmission and even storage media may also be affected. Using Error Control Coding Techniques to Encode the medical images may one of the possible solutions for this problem.

Keywords: DICOM, ECC, Water Marking, Discrete Wavlet Transform

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0322034