Robust Chaos-Based Medical Image Cryptosystem

Abstract

In In this paper, we propose an efficient cryptosystem for medical images. While the confusion stage is ensured by an Arnold's cat map allowing the permutation of pixels; the diffusion stage is alleviated by an improved logistic map used by the chaotic key-based algorithm (CKBA). The simulation results attest that the proposed algorithm has superior security and enables efficient encryption/decryption of medical images. Performances were evaluated by several security analyses: the NPCR and UACI are improved over 99.60% and 33.46% respectively, and entropy is reported close to 7.8. What makes this new cipher much stronger security.