Discrete Wavelet Transform and Singular Value Decomposition Based ECG Steganography for Secured Patient Information Transmission

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Edward Jero, S ^a   Ramu, Palaniappan ^a   Ramakrishnan, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

DWT SVD watermarking; ECG image; ECG steganography; KL performance metric

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIT ERROR RATE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM STEGANOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERCENTAGE RESIDUAL DIFFERENCE; QRS COMPLEX; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROCEDURES; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84919881911     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-014-0132-z     Document Type: Article

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