Zero-watermarking Algorithm for Medical Volume Data Based on Difference Hashing

Abstract

In order to protect the copyright of medical volume data, a new zerowatermarking algorithm for medical volume data is presented based on Legendre chaotic neural network and difference hashing in three-dimensional discrete cosine transform domain. It organically combines the Legendre chaotic neural network, three-dimensional discrete cosine transform and difference hashing, and becomes a kind of robust zero-watermarking algorithm. Firstly, a new kind of Legendre chaotic neural network is used to generate chaotic sequences, which causes the original watermarking image scrambling. Secondly, it uses three-dimensional discrete cosine transform to the original medical volume data, and the perception of the low frequency coefficient invariance in the three-dimensional discrete cosine transform domain is utilized to extract the first 4*5*4 coefficient in order to form characteristic matrix (16*5). Then, the difference hashing algorithm is used to extract a robust perceptual hashing value which is a binary sequence, with the length being 64-bit. Finally, the hashing value serves as the image features to construct the robust zero-watermarking. The results show that the algorithm can resist the attack, with good robustness and high security.