A reversible and secure patient information hiding system for IoT driven e-health |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&K, India;2. Digital Contents Research Institute, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Electronics Engineering, IoT Zakoora, J&K, India;1. Software Project Management Research Team, University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco;2. Department of Computer Sciences, EMI, University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco;1. Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Sindh, 65200, Pakistan;2. DISP LAB, University Lumiere Lyon 2, Lyon, France;3. Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China;4. School of Computing Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, 632014, Tamil Nadu, India;5. Intelligent Media Laboratory, Digital Contents Research Institute, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Internet of things (IoT) coupled with mobile cloud computing has made a paradigm shift in the service sector. IoT-assisted mobile cloud based e-healthcare services are making giant strides and are likely to change the conventional ways of healthcare service delivery. Though numerous approaches for preventing unauthorized access to information exchanged between a mobile phone and cloud platform do exist, but there is no security mechanism to prevent unauthorized access by the cloud administrators. With an aim to ensure security of client data such as Electronic Patient Records (EPR), we propose a novel high-capacity and reversible data hiding approach for securely embedding EPR within the medical images using Optimal Pixel Repetition (OPR). OPR converts every pixel of the input image to a 2 × 2 block to facilitate reversibility by ensuring all the pixels in a 2 × 2 block to have different values. Since a 2 × 2 block is comprised of 4-pixel elements, which could be arranged in sixteen possible ways; we generate a lookup table corresponding to sixteen possible positions of pixels. EPR hiding in each block is achieved by permuting the pixels of a block according to the four-bit word of secret data, resulting in a histogram invariant stego image. The histogram invariance improves the robustness of the proposed scheme to statistical attacks. A stego image is said to hide embedded data securely, when it provides better imperceptivity for an appreciably high payload. Thus, while using information embedding approach for securing client data on a mobile-cloud platform, high imperceptivity is a desirable feature. Experimental results show that average PSNR obtained is 42 dB for payload 1.25 bpp by our scheme, showing its effectiveness for preventing unauthorized access to client’s sensitive data. |
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| Keywords: | Steganography Multimedia data management Internet of things Data hiding e-healthcare Reversibility Payload Cloud-assisted multimedia Security |
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