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Maliciously Tampering with Medical Imagery

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In what I am sure is only a first in many similar demonstrations, researchers are able to add or remove cancer signs from CT scans. The results easily fool radiologists.

I don’t think the medical device industry has thought at all about data integrity and authentication issues. In a world where sensor data of all kinds is undetectably manipulatable, they’re going to have to start.

Research paper. Slashdot thread.

Tags: academic papers, cryptography, hacking, machine learning, medicine, tamper detection

Posted on April 12, 2019 at 11:13 AM13 Comments

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