The development of comprehensive accurate and well-organised technical documentation that demonstrates compliance with regulatory requirements is a resource-intensive, but critically important activity for medical device manufacturers. This article discusses guidance documents and method of organising technical documentation that may help avoid costly and time-consuming duplication.

Clinical research projects frequently rely on manual extraction of information from pathology reports, which is a costly and time-consuming process. This paper describes use of a natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically extract and structure information in textual pathology reports that is needed for clinical research.

Automated intelligent systems and products have been envisioned for almost 40 years. However, actual product development and system integration has been difficult to actualize. Current approaches are costly, time consuming, and frequently yield suboptimal results. This paper describes a development and systems integration framework that overcomes several problems that plague the intelligent sys...

Conducting surveys is a costly and time-consuming process. We developed a playful questionnaire that addresses the issue of motivation for voluntary participation. In addition, distributing playful questionnaires on Facebook gives access to basic user data, which may allow employing some of them as quality control questions or simply help to lessen the number of questions.

The United States premarket approval (PMA) process is costly and time-consuming and differs in important ways from the CE-marking process. This article discusses the importance of strategic planning for submission of a PMA and the issues that should be considered, which can lead to a reduction in the time and cost involved.

Measuring transaction success and dialogue smoothness is extremely time consuming and costly when done manually and on many dialogues but is the only possibility today for spoken dialogue systems without a very clear success state. This paper investigates the possibility of automatic derivation of transaction success for task-oriented dialogues based on simple act-topic annotations.

An immunofluorescent slide method incorporating 0.1% (wt/vol) Evans blue as a counterstain was developed and compared with a recently described tube method. Seventy-one urine specimens were tested concurrently by both methods. Results of the two methods agreed in 70 specimens and disagreed in only 1. We found the slide method to be less costly and time consuming than the tube method.

Lab-based usability testing and location-based ethnography are time consuming and costly. We introduce diary studies as a useful design alternative for crosscultural work. The relative strengths of the methods are assessed and some lessons from our own work with diary studies are shared.

During the life cycle of a software project development, many problems are found and raised. Resolutions to these problems are very time consuming and costly. How to use data mining techniques to analyse these problems, and find valuable knowledge to reduce the effort of fixing these problems are discussed in this paper.

State-of-the-art unit-selection text-to-speech systems currently produce very natural synthetic speech, at the price however of a costly and time-consuming voice creation process. We report here an extensive perceptual evaluation of several voice creation strategies, and conclude with a novel 1day process giving access to high quality TTS voices.