Traditional software development's effects on safety

Gowen, L.D.; Yap, May Yee

doi:10.1109/cbms.1993.262990

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“…Although necessary to the conduct of safe IIGS procedures, accuracy and spatial fidelity are, however, not synonymous with system safety. Saying that software is correct and the calculations are accurate says nothing about possible omissions of safeguard requirements that could have made the system safer Gowen & Yap (1993).…”

Section: State Of the Art In The Analysis And Evaluation Of Iigs Systemsmentioning

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Safety of Interactive Image-Guided Surgery

Beaulieu¹

2011

Medical Imaging

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Section: State Of the Art In The Analysis And Evaluation Of Iigs Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety of Interactive Image-Guided Surgery

Beaulieu¹

2011

Medical Imaging

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Protocol for the clinical functionality assessment of a workstation for stereotactic neurosurgery

Verbeeck

Michiels

Nuttin³

et al. 1995

IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging

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The objective of this study is to establish a protocol for the technical and clinical evaluation of a workstation for the planning of stereotactic neurosurgical interventions that has been developed in the framework of a joint European research project. Although several such workstations have been proposed before, they lacked the final and most important step, that of clinical validation. They failed to rigorously prove that their product was useful. The authors present a new method that is applicable to the evaluation of a wide range of medical technologies. Their protocol basically assesses the clinical relevance of the user requirements that are at the root of the development of the new technology. The evaluation consists of two stages. During functional specification, iterative prototyping is used to establish the clinical requirements and to assure the quality of the final product. A case study design is used in a second stage that assesses the clinical usability. A before-after study gives a first indication of cost effectiveness and improvement of health care quality.

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A review of research and methods for producing high-consequence software

Collins

Dalton

Peercy

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1995 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference. Proceedings

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The development of software for use in high-consequence systems mandates rigorous (formal) processes, methods, and techniques to improve the safety characteristics of those systems. This paper provides a brief overview of current research and practices in highconsequence software, including applied design methods. Some of the practices that are discussed include: fault tree analysis, failure mode effects analysis, petri nets, both hardware and software interlocks, n-version programming, Independent Vulnerability Analyses, and watchdogs. Techniques that offer improvement in the dependability of software in high-consequence systems applications are identified and discussed. Limitations of these techniques are also explored. Research in formal methods, the cleanroom process, and reliability models are reviewed. In addition, current work by several leading researchers as well as approaches being used by leading practitioners are examined.

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Traditional software development's effects on safety

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Safety of Interactive Image-Guided Surgery

Safety of Interactive Image-Guided Surgery

Protocol for the clinical functionality assessment of a workstation for stereotactic neurosurgery

A review of research and methods for producing high-consequence software

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