Journal on Communications ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 189-198.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2015021

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Region-based lossless data hiding with high capacity for medical images

Xiao-hong DENG1,2,3,Zhi-gang CHEN2,3,Di-qing LIANG2,3,Yi-min MAO1   

  1. 1 College of Applied Science,Jiangxi University of Science and Technology,Ganzhou 341000,China
    2 College of Information Science and Engineering,Central South University,Changsha 410083,China
    3 Mobile Medical Laboratory,Central South University,Changsha 410083,China
  • Online:2015-01-25 Published:2017-06-21
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The National Natural Science Foundation of China;The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province;Research Project of Jiangxi University of Science &Technology

Abstract:

In view of the significant regional features of medical images,a new high capacity lossless data hiding method based on region and histogram shifting was presented.Firstly,the presented method utilized segmentation method of the maximum class separation distance to get the foreground region of medical images,and then used the polymeric polygonal approximation and image fitting algorithm to get the embedding region of region foreground.In the embedding procedure,the difference histogram circular shifting method and the code-based histogram shifting method were presented to embed hidden data in foreground and background region respectively,which improved the limit embedding capacity and resolved the overflow and underflow in traditional histogram shifting method.Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves high embedding capacity with 1 bit/pixel and stego-image quality about 40 dB.The presented method can be applied to the quality of sensitive image's large capacity information hiding with regional feature.

Key words: medical image, region, reversible data hiding, privacy protection, histogram shifting

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