Improving the reliability of medical software by predicting the dangerous software modules

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-11

  Podgorelec, Vili ^a   Heričko, Marjan ^a   Jurič, Matjaž B ^a   Rozman, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Medical software; Prediction; Software reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PREDICTION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TREES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 15244356390     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-005-1100-4     Document Type: Article

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