Secure MRI Brain Image Transmission Using IOT Devices Based on Hybrid Autoencoder and Restricted Boltzmann Approach

Abstract

In recent times, the medical image processing solves several clinical issues by inspecting the visual images, which are generated in the clinical health care units. The main objective of the research is to gain valuable information from the images for better clinical diagnosis. In the biomedical engineering domain, the medical image analysis is an emerging research topic. In the recent decades, the use of medical images is highly growing, which are acquired from different image modalities; so, there is a necessity for data compression for transmission, storage, and management of digital medical image datasets. Hence, the machine learning methods are effective for medical image analysis, where the deep learning models are used in the machine learning tools for automatically learning the feature vectors from the huge medical datasets. The automated deep learning models are effective compared to the conventional handcrafted features. In addition to this, a wireless sensor network (WSN) is used to create a primary health care scheme, which brings patient data together and expands the medical conveniences, whereas the WSN design must comprise of sensor nodes, because it consumes less power and resources at a relatively low cost; so, it is essential for implementing the Raspberry Pi-based WSN nodes. The sensor nodes are important for limited battery capacity and to transmit the vast amount of medical data. The proposed work is broadly classified into two categories such as (i) the medical image compression algorithm is developed using the deep learning model based on autoencoders and restricted Boltzmann machines (RBM) and (ii) implementation of the WSN sensors nodes with Raspberry Pi and Messaging Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Internet of Things (IoT) protocol for secure transmission of the medical images. The experimental results are evaluated using the standard performance metrics like peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and presented a Real-Time Linux (RTL) implementation of the design. The proposed model showed 10 dB to 15 dB improvement in the PSNR value, while transmitting the medical images, which is better compared to the existing model.