Biomedical Multimedia Encryption by Fractional-Order Meixner Polynomials Map and Quaternion Fractional-Order Meixner Moments

Chaotic systems are widely used in signal and image encryption schemes. Therefore, the design of new chaotic systems is always useful for improving the performance of encryption schemes in terms of security. In this work, we first demonstrate the chaotic behavior of fractional order Meixner polynomials (FrMPs) for introducing a new two-dimensional (2D) chaotic system called FrMPs map. This system is very sensitive to any variation by 10−15 of its control parameters ( $\mu \textrm {and}\beta$ ).Next, we use FrMPs to introduce a new type of orthogonal transforms called quaternion fractional order Meixner moments (QFrMMs). The latter generalize the existing fractional order Meixner moments. To demonstrate the relevance of the proposed FrMPs map and QFrMMs in the field of signal and image processing, they are applied in the development of a new encryption scheme. The main advantage of this scheme is its applicability to the encryption of different types of biomedical data such as multi-biomedical signals, multiple grayscale medical images, color medical image, and grayscale medical image. Several simulation analysis (visual, histogram, runtime, correlation, robustness, etc.) are conducted to verify the efficiency of the proposed scheme. Simulation and comparison results confirm that our encryption method is effective in terms of high security level, high quality of the decrypted information, strong resistance to different types of attacks, etc. These findings support the suitability of the proposed scheme for the secure exchange of biomedical multimedia via a public communication channel.