Digital Watermarking of Medical Images for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices are widely available to both consumers and businesses at affordable prices. These devices have the computational power to achieve tasks that were infeasible a few years ago. In medical facilities, mobile devices provide the medium for remote diagnosis and information retrieval. However, there are strict privacy issues that must be met. We investigate digital watermarking and information hiding techniques on mobile devices for data authentication. Due to limited bandwidth and storage capability of mobile devices, we also consider the use of digital watermarks and information hiding to pass medical information and images with relatively low bandwidth and storage.