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In this work, a reversible scheme based on histogram bin shifting and RGB plane concatenation has been proposed which offers high embedding capacity as well. We have exploited the fact that medical images, unlike general images, consist of a large number of peaks and zero points that can be employed for reversibly embedding the data. Reversibility ensures that original image restoration takes place after the extraction of embedded data, which is of great importance in medical images for proper diagnosis and treatment. We have used various subjective and objective image quality metrics for analyzing the scheme. The proposed scheme has been shown to provide a Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) value of above 56\u200adB for an embedding capacity of 0.58 bits per pixel (bpp). 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