A Reversible Data Hiding Based on Histogram Shifting of Prediction Errors for Two-Tier Medical Images

Huang, Li-Chin; Chiou, Shu-Fen; Hwang, Min-Shiang

doi:10.15388/20-INFOR422

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A Reversible Data Hiding Based on Histogram Shifting of Prediction Errors for Two-Tier Medical Images

Volume 32, Issue 1 (2021), pp. 69–84

Li-Chin Huang Shu-Fen Chiou Min-Shiang Hwang

https://doi.org/10.15388/20-INFOR422

Pub. online: 22 June 2020 Type: Research Article

Open Access

Received
1 September 2018

Accepted
1 May 2020

Published
22 June 2020

Abstract

Clinics and hospitals have already adopted more technological resources to provide a faster and more precise diagnostic for patients, health care providers, and institutes of medicine. Security issues get more and more important in medical services via communication resources such as Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi), third generation of mobile telecommunications technology (3G), and other mobile devices to connect medical systems from anywhere. Furthermore, cloud-based medical systems allow users to access archived medical images from anywhere. In order to protect medical images, lossless data hiding methods are efficient and easy techniques. In this paper, we present a data hiding of two-tier medical images based on histogram shifting of prediction errors. The median histogram shifting technique and prediction error schemes as the two-tier hiding have high capacity and PSNR in 16-bit medical images.

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Biographies

Huang Li-Chin

lsb55239@gmail.com

L.-C. Huang received the BS degree in computer science from Providence University, Taiwan, in 1993 and MS degree in information management from Chaoyang University of Technology (CYUT), Taichung, Taiwan, in 2001, and the PhD degree in computer and information science from National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan, in 2001. Her current research interests include information security, cryptography, medical image, data hiding, network, security, big data, and mobile communications.

Chiou Shu-Fen

fen057@gmail.com

S.-F. Chiou received a BBA degree in information management from National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, in 2004. She studied MS degree in computer science and engineering from National Chung Hsing University for one year, and she started to pursue the PhD degree. She received a PhD in computer science and engineering from National Chung Hsing University, in 2012. She is currently an assistant professor of Department of Information Management, National Taichung University of Science and Technology. Her current research interests include information security, network security, data hiding, text mining and big data analysis.

Hwang Min-Shiang

mshwang@asia.edu.tw

M.-S. Hwang received MS degree in industrial engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1988, and his PhD degree in computer and information science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1995. He was a professor and chairman of the Department of Management Information Systems, NCHU, during 2003–2009. He was also a visiting professor with University of California (UC), Riverside and UC. Davis (USA) during 2009–2010. He was a distinguished professor of Department of Management Information Systems, NCHU, during 2007–2011. He obtained the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 Excellent Research Award of National Science Council (Taiwan). Dr. Hwang was a dean of college of Computer Science, Asia University (AU), Taichung, Taiwan. He is currently a chair professor with Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, AU. His current research interests include information security, electronic commerce, database and data security, cryptography, image compression, and mobile computing. Dr. Hwang has published over 300+ articles on the above research fields in international journals.

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lossless data embedding reversible data hiding histogram prediction medical image

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This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under grant MOST 106-2221-E-468-002.

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