2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

System, Image Processing, Radiological

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §892.2050 (Radiology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book System, Image Processing, Radiological MID-BOOK · MAUDE

#145 of 1000 · 19,647 reports · 1996–2026

  • BOOK 19,647 reports
  • RANK #145 of 1000
  • DEATH 41 death-typed
  • INJ 124 injury-typed
  • MALF 19,371 malfunction
  • SPAN 1996–2026
  • PEAK 2014: 15,631
  • PHOTO Suture

Nearest event-volume peer: Suture, Nonabsorbable, Synthetic, Polypropylene (39 report gap)

System, Image Processing, Radiological sits #145 of 1000 among tracked device types with 19,647 MAUDE reports spanning 1996–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

System, Image Processing, Radiological carries 98.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 33.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 0.6% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-29.7 pp)
  • MALF 98.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+33.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Nonstandard Device is 43% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer AGFA HEALTHCARE CORP accounts for 60% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 96% of location-tagged rows .

System, Image Processing, Radiological in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows System, Image Processing, Radiological carries 19,647 MAUDE reports, ranked #145 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 19,371 (98.6%)
Injury 124 (0.6%)
Other 80 (0.4%)
Death 41 (0.2%)
31 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

19,253 (97.9%)
Other 268 (1.4%)
Death 43 (0.2%)
Required Intervention 43 (0.2%)
Hospitalization 15 (0.1%)
R 8 (0.0%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.0%)
O 6 (0.0%)
Disability 6 (0.0%)
H 5 (0.0%)
Congenital Anomaly 2 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Nonstandard Device 14,816
Computer Software Problem 14,715
Patient Data Problem 734
Communication or Transmission Problem 516
Computer Operating System Problem 436
Installation-Related Problem 412
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 396
Incorrect Or Inadequate Test Results 318
Loss of Data 272
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 244
Data Problem 242
Programming Issue 242
Display or Visual Feedback Problem 201
Device Displays Incorrect Message 194
No Display/Image 167
Incorrect Measurement 154
Insufficient Device Problem Information 147
Application Program Problem 123
Failure to Transmit Record 118
Use of Device Problem 116

Yearly Trend

96
1996: 1
97
1997: 2
98
1998: 2
99
1999: 4
00
2000: 9
01
2001: 12
02
2002: 10
03
2003: 41
04
2004: 11
05
2005: 13
06
2006: 21
07
2007: 152
08
2008: 154
09
2009: 145
10
2010: 145
11
2011: 454
12
2012: 266
13
2013: 1,130
14
2014: 15,631
15
2015: 211
16
2016: 290
17
2017: 104
18
2018: 72
19
2019: 88
20
2020: 82
21
2021: 70
22
2022: 28
23
2023: 26
24
2024: 42
25
2025: 118
26
2026: 313

Reports rose to 118 in 2025, up from an average of 34 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for System, Image Processing, Radiological

Event Locations

18,808 (95.7%)
I 707 (3.6%)
HOSPITAL 80 (0.4%)
NO INFORMATION 16 (0.1%)
OTHER 11 (0.1%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 11 (0.1%)
INVALID DATA 8 (0.0%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 4 (0.0%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
UNKNOWN 1 (0.0%)

Compare AGFA HEALTHCARE CORP vs AGFA HEALTHCARE CORP. →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for System, Image Processing, Radiological: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (19,647 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (41 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for System, Image Processing, Radiological are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for System, Image Processing, Radiological; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.