A Robust Watermarking Scheme Over Quadrant Medical Image in Discrete Wavelet Transform Domain

Abstract

The diffusion of digital content is very fast in today's technology. The velocity of gathering data might cause unlawful distribution of content. The major problem in content authorization is the robustness of methodology. Since frangible methodologies result unauthorized content access quicker, more robust solutions are essential for copyright protection. Watermarking technology is considered as a robust solution for copyright protection and authentication. In watermarking, quality of the image is a challenge. Applying a watermark on a medical image might cause corruption in original image, which leads to misleading content. The proposed copyright protection mechanism includes Quadtree algorithm which finds a region of non-interest to apply watermark on medical image in Discrete Wavelet Domain to provide authentication of the content without altering region of interest. Furthermore, in this paper, the visual quality of watermark implemented medical images and sample values are also discussed with the experimental results as well. © 2018 IEEE.