Chaotic Encryption of ECG Signals with a Random Kernel Approach

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Faculty of Electronic Engineering Menouf, Egypt

Abstract

Security of biometric data is very important in the healthcare domain. Due to uniqueness of electrocardiogram (ECG) is very high even in identical twins, so it can be used as biometric signature.This paper introduces a simple efficient ECG encryption technique based on random kernel approach. As ECG signals contain sensitive confidential information with details for patient identification, it needs to be encrypted before transmission through public network to avoid the data being breached and hacked. The security of the proposed system will depend on random kernel coefficients, substitution process and length of kernel filter. Simulation results show that the proposed system is capable of encrypting ECG signals for secure communication efficiently.

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Volume 28, ICEEM2019-Special Issue
ICEEM2019-Special Issue: 1st International Conference on Electronic Eng., Faculty of Electronic Eng., Menouf, Egypt, 7-8 Dec.
2019
Pages 115-121