Multiple image watermarking applied to health information management

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 722-732

  Giakoumaki, Aggeliki ^a   Pavlopoulos, Sotiris ^a   Koutsouris, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Authentication; Image retrieval; Integrity; Medical confidentiality; Multiple watermarking

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

AUTHENTICATION; MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY; MULTIPLE WATERMARKING;

DIGITAL WATERMARKING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER SECURITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOCUMENTATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750216800     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.875655     Document Type: Article

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