Developing a Cancer Diagnosis Database usingLight-Weight CMMI: A Case Study of Breast Cancer

• Main Authors: To-Yeh Huang, 黃拓業
• Other Authors: Wu-wei Lai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67457186030122427903

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 工程科學系專班 === 97 === This research is the first step toward building a new version of cancer diagnosis database. The motivations are that records of cancer cases are needed by the National Health Bureau, and for supporting medical staffs’ researches. Many physicians and case managers (nurses) have been raising their requirements for the database. After system analysis, we find that the core of such a data base would be the case management, which shows/records the continuing progress of a cancer patient. Though it sounds easy to keep the progress of a cancer patient, it is hard for medical staffs to have such records because of privacy issue. For example, open cancer databases, such as SEER and FORDS, depersonalizes each record, which makes each record independent to each other. In addition, light-weight CMMI, an approach to improve software quality, is adopted during the development of the database. Four CMMI required documents, i.e. project plan, software requirement, system design, and integrated testing plan, were generated. It is hoped that using Light-Weight CMMI would improve the software quality and to reduce the cost/overhead in developing other subsystems of the cancer diagnosis database.