In this work, we propose a blind watermarking approach for medical image protection. In this
approach, the watermark will be constituted of the Electronic Patient Record and the image
acquisition data. In order to enhance the security and guarantee the data integrity, the
Electronic Patient Record hash will be added to the watermark. The integration process is
based on a DWT-SVD combination, a DWT is applied to the retinal image, then, an SVD is
applied to the LL sub-band. The watermark will be then integrated into the least significant …