title: Development of computer systems for endoscopic surgery.
abstract: The use of computer technology in endoscopic surgery is a necessity if more advanced and high quality minimal invasive operations are to be performed. Since safety and reliability are a major issue in medical applications, the development of computer systems has to follow a systematic procedure including quality assurance and be supervised by project management as employed in such safety-relevant areas as aerospace and nuclear energy. An overview of the early phases of this development process and of the major tests during the process is presented.
authors.affiliation: Karlsruhe Research Center, Institute for Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Trauboth
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003199:Computer Systems; D003626:Data Display; D004724:Endoscopy; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008846:Micromanipulation; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012449:Safety; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration