A DECENTRALIZED, SECURE BLOCKCHAIN FOR MEDICAL IMAGING DATA

Abstract

Medical applications including X-ray, ultrasound, computer tomography scans, and so on produce a massive amount of patient pictures daily. Patient privacy and individual rights are at the heart of medical data. As a result, protecting the confidentiality of medical pictures is crucial. Having a secure system in place to preserve medical photographs is essential for meeting the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Act. So, we came up with a blockchain-based solution for safely storing chest X-ray pictures uploaded to Kaggle. To validate medical photos and manage role-based access rights, we built a smart contract. After every medical inspection, we preserved the picture fingerprint in the blockchain by performing a cryptographic operation on the X-Ray image. In order to detect illnesses associated with pneumonia, artificial intelligence was used. In this study, we evaluated the time needed for X-ray retrieval in comparison to more traditional PACS systems. The testing findings demonstrated that the suggested blockchain architecture had a very low overhead of around 5%. "Keywords": blockchain technology, smart contracts, Dapp, and medical picture data.