Actas de congresos
Protecting medical images with biometric information
Date
2008-12-01Registration in:
Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, p. 284-289.
10.1007/978-1-4020-8741-7_52
WOS:000262481300052
2-s2.0-67349196531
8163849451440263
6027713750942689
Author
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Institutions
Abstract
Medical images are private to doctor and patient. Digital medical images should be protected against unauthorized viewers. One way to protect digital medical images is using cryptography to encrypt the images. This paper proposes a method for encrypting medical images with a traditional symmetric cryptosystem. We use biometrics to protect the cryptographic key. Both encrypted image and cryptographic key can be transmitted over public networks with security and only the person that owns the biometrics information used in key protection can decrypt the medical image. © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008.