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Wavelet based imperceptible medical image watermarking using spread-spectrum

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A spread-spectrum watermarking algorithm for embedding text watermark in to digital images in discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain and it is observed that the use of BCH code improves the performance by reducing bit error rate (BER) performance.
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This paper presents a spread-spectrum watermarking algorithm for embedding text watermark in to digital images in discrete wavelet transform (DWT) domain. The algorithm is applied for embedding text file represented in binary arrays using ASCII code into host digital radiological image for potential telemedicine applications. In order to enhance the robustness of text watermarks like patient identity code, BCH (Bose, Ray-Chaudhuri, Hocquenghem) error correcting code (ECC) is applied to the ASCII representation of the text watermark before embedding. Performance of the algorithm is analysed by varying the gain factor, subband decomposition levels, and length of watermark. Robustness of the scheme is tested against various attacks like compression, filtering, noise, sharpening, scaling and histogram equalization. Simulation results show that the proposed method achieves imperceptible watermarking for string watermarks. It is also observed that the use of BCH code improves the performance by reducing bit error rate (BER) performance.

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