A HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING-BASED APPROACH FOR THE REALISTIC MODELING AND SIMULATION OF EEG ACTIVITY

An original simulation framework specifically conceived and designed to achieve high performance three-dimensional (3 D) realistic modeling and simulation of electro-encephalographic (EEG) brain activity, named TEBAM (True Electrical Brain Activity Mapping), is presented. We describe the integrated ICT framework that has been proposed and developed for TEBAM, specifying the design characteristics, implementation and tools interconnections. TEBAM relays on patient's specific realistic head modeling, based on identification of the various head structures necessary for an accurate model building by means of suitable clinical imaging protocols presented in this paper. TEBAM is implemented and optimized with a very flexible approach to solve in short time, by means of High Performance Computing resources, the large scale computations needed. 3D simulation results can be visualized in TEBAM framework in different multimodal ways, combining the anatomical information with the computed results to give an optimal insight of computation output, relying also on stereographic visualization.