Improving the trustworthiness of medical device software with formal verification methods

IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 50-53

  Li, Chunxiao ^a   Raghunathan, Anand ^b   Jha, Niraj K ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Formal verification; Medical device software; Safety; Security

Indexed keywords

FORMAL VERIFICATION METHODS; FORMAL VERIFICATIONS; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; MEDICAL DEVICES; SECURITY; SOFTWARE VULNERABILITIES; TEMPORAL SAFETY PROPERTIES; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSIS; NETWORK SECURITY; PACEMAKERS;

VERIFICATION;

EID: 84883573451     PISSN: 19430663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LES.2013.2276434     Document Type: Article

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