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medical imaging data to meet the increased demand. These
digital records need to be processed and stored. So, mass storage
systems and powerful image processing software are required.
Nevertheless, to invest in a sophisticated local data center leads to
high operating expenses. To overcome this challenge, cloud
computing has recently been adopted in healthcare sector. In
fact, this new paradigm offers scalable computational resources
to the client as a service. Furthermore, consumers are commonly
charged only for cloud services utilization. In spite of its
demonstrated advantages, moving medical data to cloud
computing brings security threats. That is why we propose a
method based on visual cryptography to secure medical image
storage over cloud. Indeed, this technique ensures privacy
without complex mathematical computations. The experimental
results show that the proposed method ensures data
confidentiality by splitting medical image into several shares.
Moreover, we propose a multi­cloud environment to reduce
security risks and to improve performance.
Keywords-medical image; multi-cloud; visual cryptography.
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