This paper presents an error protection technique for SPIHT-coded image transmission in etTor-prone network. For the lowest and next lowest frequency coefficients

protection scheme based data hiding is performed. The lowest and next lowest frequency coefficients

which are taken as the hidden data

are extracted from the compressed bitstream

and embedded back into the same bitstream. The restored hidden data is used to conceal errors. The coefficients that cannot be recovered in other high frequency coefficients reconstruction are predicted through linear interpolation based on intrasubband or inter-subband correlation. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves good and stable error performance with minimal additional redundancy.