Nested Quantization Index Modulation for Reversible Watermarking and Its Application to Healthcare Information Management Systems

Digital watermarking has attracted lots of researches to healthcare information management systems for access control, patients' data protection, and information retrieval. The well-known quantization index modulation-(QIM-) based watermarking has its limitations as the host image will be destr...

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Main Authors: Lu-Ting Ko, Jwu-E. Chen, Yaw-Shih Shieh, Hsi-Chin Hsin, Tze-Yun Sung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/839161