Research Article

Parallel Digital Watermarking Process on Ultrasound Medical Images in Multicores Environment

Table 9

A table of comparison on elapsed time of watermarking authentication process on different sets of tampered frames in watermarked ultrasound medical images.

Tampered watermarked US imagesElapsed time for watermarking authentication process
SeqDRParDR

Tampered_0_frames18.2YesYes23.1YesYes
Tampered_3_frames56.9YesYes35.3YesYes
Tampered_6_frames97.0YesYes39.1YesYes
Tampered_9_frames139.9YesYes53.8YesYes
Tampered_12_frames241.6YesYes58.2YesYes
Tampered_15_frames259.1YesYes71.0YesYes

Seq: sequential version (seconds).
Par: parallel version (seconds).
D: able to detect and display the tampered frame number?
R: able to recover to its original form after authentication process?