Guest Editorial: Robust and Secure Data Hiding Techniques for Telemedicine Applications

Abstract

Recently, with the explosive growth of information and communication technologies, various new opportunities emerged for the creation and delivery of content in digital form which includes applications such as real time video and audio delivery, electronic advertising, digital libraries, broadcast monitoring, e-governance, e-commerce applications, copy control, media identification and tracking, healthcare, E-Voting Systems, remote education, web publishing and digital cinema. One of the promising applications of digital image watermarking is in the field of secure medical data transmission for various telemedicine applications. However, these advantages have the consequent risks of data piracy and authenticity, which motivate towards development of new protection mechanisms. One such effort that has been attracting interest is based on digital watermarking techniques, which is a technique for embedding data (called a watermark) into digital multimedia cover objects in such a way that the watermark can be detected or extracted later to make an assertion about the authenticity and / or originality of the object. The aim of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art data hiding techniques and technical solutions in the area of telemedicine applications.