SECURING MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS REPORT USING IMAGE STEGANOGRAPHY

Abstract

The amounts of digital medical images have increased rapidly today so fast and
secure transmission of medical diagnosis has become prime importance. Efficient
transmission of images over the internet is required. So, this paper is on medical diagnosis
image steganography methods which are used for enhancing security of medical data for
further diagnosis and reference. For securing the medical diagnosis report as an image using
modified LSB data hiding method is used. In receiver direction when the stego image is
received then the inverse methods in reverse order is applied to get the original medical
diagnosis report as an image. Then, receiver sent the expert opinion as any file format using
the modified LSB data hiding method. In sender side when image is arriving apply the
reverse order to get the expert opinion as any file format.