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This paper proposes an image encryption system developed using deep learning to realize the secure and efficient transmission of medical images over an insecure network. The non-linearity introduced with deep learning makes the encryption system secure against plaintext attacks. Another limiting factor for applying deep learning in this area is the quality of the recovered image. The application of an appropriate loss function further improves the quality of the recovered image. The loss function employs the structure similarity index metric (SSIM) to train the encryption\/decryption network to achieve the desired output. This loss function helped to generate cipher images similar to the target cipher images and recovered images similar to the originals concerning structure, luminance and contrast. The images recovered through the proposed decryption scheme were high-quality, which was further justified by their PSNR values. Security analysis and its results explain that the proposed model provides security against statistical and differential attacks. Comparative analysis justified the robustness of the proposed encryption system.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems11010036","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,9]],"date-time":"2023-01-09T04:47:08Z","timestamp":1673239628000},"page":"36","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":48,"title":["Encipher GAN: An End-to-End Color Image Encryption System Using a Deep Generative Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Kirtee","family":"Panwar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"SCSET, Bennett University, Greater Noida 201310, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5520-8066","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akansha","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"SCSET, Bennett University, Greater Noida 201310, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sonal","family":"Kukreja","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"SCSET, Bennett University, Greater Noida 201310, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Krishna Kant","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Deaprtment of CSE, ASET, Amity University, Noida 201303, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6875-8534","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nataliya","family":"Shakhovska","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Artificial Intelligence, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrii","family":"Boichuk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Artificial Intelligence, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1163","DOI":"10.1109\/TCYB.2017.2682561","article-title":"On the security of a class of diffusion mechanisms for image encryption","volume":"48","author":"Zhang","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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