The Way of Improving PSO Performance: Medical Imaging Watermarking Case Study

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) are population based heuristic search techniques which can be used to solve the optimization problems modeled on the concept of evolutionary approach. In this paper we incorporate PSO with GA in hybrid technique called GPSO. This paper proposes the use of GPSO in designing an adaptive medical watermarking algorithm. Such algorithm aim to enhance the security, confidentiality , and integrity of medical images transmitted through the Internet. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm yields a watermark which is invisible to human eyes and is robust against a wide variety of common attacks.

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