Review of Image Security approaches: Concepts, Issues, Challenges and Applications

Abstract

Currently, digital images are widely used in different applications to represent distinguishable contents. Also, diagnosing diseases using medical images became vital and crucial and if the data in these images are liable for unauthorized usage, this may lead to severe problems. The security of these data has become an urgent and serious problem and needs immediate attention. Traditional encryption and decryption algorithms are not sufficient to secure digital images. Especially, image encryption and decryption algorithms are needed. Securing image data with effective encryption approaches can be more useful for applications. This article aims to comparatively study the different digital image encryption algorithms. In the current Pandemic scenario of COVID-19, the variety of research work can be communicated through the encrypted images among researchers to avoid the leakage of information. These image encryption algorithms are having applications to secure image data and store and share them in the network environments.