NEW PROJECTS

A new book proposal was submitted to CRC Press in February 2025. The provisional title is "Using Artificial Intelligence to Assist the Development of Medical Device Software". It is planned as a 18 month project. If accepted, it will be published in late 2026

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PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS

The publications listed below (most recent at top) contain general guidance on the software development process, plus specific regulatory requirements for software that qualifies as a medical device.

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(My most recent publication (a book on producing compliant medical device software) is covered on a separate page).​

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​Cosgriff PS, Memmott M . Artificial intelligence in radiology. Scope, 2021: 31:2: 36-39. See IPEM website for access.

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Cosgriff PS. Regulatory considerations when deploying your software in a clinical environment. Diagnostic Radiology Physics with MATLAB, CRC Press, 2020. (This chapter covers both EU and US medical device regulations). Order here.​​​

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A series of articles were published in 'Scope' (the official journal of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, IPEM) during the period 2015-2017. The articles were written by a software development working party set up by the Informatics and Computing Special Interest Group (ICSIG) within IPEM:

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• Writing quality software: Scope, 2015: 24: 4: 22-23

• In-house development of medical software. Scope, 2016: 25: 1: 23-26. Download PDF

• The case for software testing. Scope, 2016: 25: 2: 20-22.

• The software lifecycle: common methodologies. Scope, 2016: 25: 3: 23-26.

• Project initiation and management. Scope, 2017: 26: 2: 10-13.

• Requirements specification. Scope, 2017: 26: 3: 12-14.

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The references below are provided mainly for historical interest, but they contain basic information and advice that is still relevant today.

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Quality assurance of in house developed software in nuclear medicine [409 kB]. Download PDF (TBA)

P.S.Cosgriff & A. Houston, published in 2003 in IPEM Report 86: 'Quality control of gamma camera systems'

 

[The above book is now out of print. It was replaced by IPEM Report 111 in 2015, but the chapter on software was limited to the testing of commercial software - due to the work of the ICSIG referred to above]. 

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Basic guidelines for writing spreadsheets [3.0 MB]. Download PDF (TBA)

P.S.Cosgriff. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society, April 2002

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Quality assurance of software used in diagnostic medical imaging [12 kB]. Download PDF (TBA)

P.S.Cosgriff. Safety Systems, Vol 5, No 2, 1996.

 

Quality assurance of medical software  [61 kB]. Download PDF (TBA)

P.S.Cosgriff. Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, Volume 18, No 1, pp 1-10, 1994.

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​Note that more selected articles (by other authors) are provided in the downloads area​​​​

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This page last updated: 17 February 2025​

 

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