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On-Board Format-Independent Security of Functional Magnetic Resonance Images

Authors:

Arcangelo Castiglione,

Raffaele Pizzolante,

Francesco Palmieri,

Barbara Masucci,

Bruno Carpentieri,

Alfredo De Santis,

Aniello CastiglioneAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 16, Issue 2

Article No.: 56, Pages 1 - 15

https://doi.org/10.1145/2893474

Published: 10 January 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides an effective and noninvasive tool for researchers to understand cerebral functions and correlate them with brain activities. In addition, with the ever-increasing diffusion of the Internet, such images may be exchanged in several ways, allowing new research and medical services. On the other hand, ensuring the security of exchanged fMRI data becomes a main concern due to their special characteristics arising from strict ethics and legislative and diagnostic implications. Again, the risks increase when dealing with open environments like the Internet. For this reason, security mechanisms that ensure protection of such data are strongly required. However, we remark that the mechanisms commonly employed for data protection are doomed to fail when dealing with imaging data. In this article, we propose a novel watermarking scheme explicitly addressed for this type of imaging. Such a scheme can be used for several purposes, particularly to ensure authenticity and integrity. Moreover, we show how to integrate our scheme within commercial off-the-shelf fMRI system. Finally, the validity and the efficiency of our scheme has been assessed through testing.

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 16, Issue 2

Special Issue on LCETES 2015, Special Issue on ACSD 2015 and Special Issue on Embedded Devise Forensics and Security

May 2017

705 pages

ISSN:1539-9087

EISSN:1558-3465

DOI:10.1145/3025020

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Published: 10 January 2017

Accepted: 01 February 2016

Revised: 01 January 2016

Received: 01 November 2015

Published in TECS Volume 16, Issue 2

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