====================================== Summary and licensing information ====================================== This code is for automated retrieval of medical device recalls data from the FDA Recalls Database and classification of Computer-related Recalls. It is modified from the original version developed at the University of Illinois, DEPEND Research Group, by Homa Alemzadeh and Raymond Hoagland. For more details please refer to the following publications: [1] "Analysis of Safety-Critical Computer Failures in Medical Devices": http://faculty.virginia.edu/alemzadeh/papers/Alemzadeh_IEEES&P_2013.pdf [2] "Automated Classification of Computer-based Medical Device Recalls: An Application of Natural Language Processing and Statistical Learning": http://faculty.virginia.edu/alemzadeh/papers/CBMS_14.pdf If you use or modify this code in any form, please include the citation for paper [1]: H. Alemzadeh, R. K. Iyer, Z. Kalbarczyk, and J. Raman, “Analysis of Safety-Critical Computer Failures in Medical Devices,” IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 14-26, July/August 2013. Copyright (C) 2015 University of Virginia, Dependable Systems and Analytics Group. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.