Medical Image Encryption Based on Hybrid AES with Chaotic Map

Patient privacy and image protection is an obligation. Data privacy, data protection, and security must be provided by using encryption to ensure confidentiality. Currently, there are numerous standard traditional encryption algorithms. Most of these are suitable for a text file. It is challenging to employ these algorithms for images or videos directly because of strong adjacent pixels correlations. Decreasing the correlation among the surrounding pixels reduces the detail. An algorithm based on a quadratic map is applied as a preprocessing step to nullify the relationship between pixels and reduce the entropy. The AES image encryption is performed for confusion and diffusion, which are necessary for confidentiality. The security analysis findings indicate that the sensitive encryption and decryption techniques are highly dependent on any improvement in the key. The encryption solution is broad enough to avoid brute-force attacks. Thus, during the transfer of medical images over the network, protection can become an issue. (paper)