There is always a need for an updated systematic review of a special subject area because of its importance for the researchers and the interested audience. This paper presents a review of medical image authentication (MIA) which is an interesting application of medical image watermarking techniques. The main objectives of medical image authentication techniques are protecting the medical images from tampering and verifying their integrity. Over the years many MIA schemes have been presented for different purposes such as detecting tampering in the medical images, localizing the tampered region, and recovering the tampered region. This paper starts by providing some basic information about the medical image watermarking techniques and their requirements, followed by a brief display for the previous review papers in this field which proves the necessity to present this review paper. Then, an overview of MIA process and its domain-based concepts are presented. Thereafter, the MIA schemes are classified according to their objectives and the domain of embedding the watermarks. The most used performance evaluation measures and metrics in the state-of-the-art are also reviewed in this paper followed by the conclusions and some recent trends of this interesting research field.

由于对研究者和感兴趣的听众很重要，因此始终需要对特定主题领域进行更新的系统评价。本文介绍了医学图像认证（MIA），这是医学图像水印技术的有趣应用。医学图像认证技术的主要目标是保护医学图像免遭篡改并验证其完整性。多年来，出于不同的目的已经提出了许多MIA方案，例如检测医学图像中的篡改，定位篡改区域并恢复篡改区域。本文首先提供有关医学图像水印技术及其要求的一些基本信息，随后简要展示该领域的先前评论文章，这证明了提交此评论文章的必要性。然后，概述了MIA过程及其基于域的概念。此后，根据其目标和嵌入水印的领域对MIA方案进行分类。本文还回顾了最先进的性能评估方法和度量标准，然后总结了这一有趣的研究领域的结论和一些近期趋势。