Squint Pixel Steganography: A Novel Approach to Detect Digital Crimes and Recovery of Medical Images

Technology is playing a major role in the rapid growth of Techno media in relation to information security. Tampers are a major handicap while transferring medical images. In order to circumvent these issues used Steganography to hide the information inside a cover medium with different carrier formats. In this paper, the author proposes a novel squint pixel based medical image steganography technique to avoid distortion by an attacker. In this method, Original medical image itself acts as a carrier image. A Medical image segmented into two sets of pixels, Region of interest (ROI) and squint pixels of region of non-interest (RONI). The authentic data and information of ROI of a medical image embedded in penultimate and least significant bits (PLSB) of squint pixels of RONI. Results of experiments on various medical images show that the proposed method produces high quality stego medical images with high accuracy and recovery of ROI data without loss. KeywoRDS PLSB, ROI, RONI, Squint Pixel, Steganography