Selective medical image encryption using DNA cryptography

Abstract

In the medical field, advanced techniques like e-health, smart health, and telemedicine applications are in use. These techniques transmit a digital medical image via open-source networks. The digital medical image contains confidential and sensitive information of patients. The transmitted digital medical images are used for diagnosis in the remote center. Hence, providing security and maintaining the confidentiality of the medical image is a major apprehension. In this paper, DNA cryptography and dual hyperchaotic map techniques are proposed to provide high-level security for a digital medical image. The digital medical images are very large in size and require more computational time. To reduce computational time, the selective digital medical image encryption algorithm is proposed. In the proposed cryptosystem, the permutation and diffusion process are performed on selected pixels of digital medical images. To construct theDNA structure for digital medical images, all DNA encoding rules based on the pixel position of the digital medical image are used. The cipher image is attained by using all DNA decoding rules based on the pixel value of the digital medical image. The proposed cryptosystem is resistant to different types of attacks.