Award details

Development of GRID based software for intelligent analysis and archiving of the Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Reference	BB/D006570/1
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor David Holder
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Peter Dayan
Institution	University College London
Department	Medical Physics and Biomedical Eng
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	60,440
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/09/2005
End date	31/12/2006
Duration	16 months

Abstract

The overall purpose of this proposal is to develop a software platform for archival, dissemination, and expert and automatic analysis of systems physiological data. Our primary intention is to develop it for use in our area of expertise and professional interest, systems neurophysiological data - EEG and evoked responses, but the methods will be widely applicable to other physiological ensemble data, such as Electromyography or Electrocardiography. The underlying platform has already been developed and is able to read and display EEG data in many formats, compress it, and permit its transmission across the Internet or other telecommunication media. This application is for funds to support an existing e-science project, BEP 17071. The goals of this are to develop and test a web site in which a suite of programs is available for advanced analysis of brain signals, using the GRID where needed for computing power. Our intention is to create a global user group, sharing and analyzing this systems physiological data, using previously developed software as a platform. Many of the analysis methods require intensive computer power; an essential part of the procedure is to enable seamless access to the GRID to allow the end user to undertake processing in a user-friendly manner. The current project employs a mathematical physicist for implementation and development of new procedures intended to maximise the potential provided by the GRID, and a programmer to develop access to GRID middleware and the software platform. The application was voted as one of the top five GRID applications in the UK at the Condor week 2004. The existing program is currently is in the third year of four. At present, the programmer is due to leave at the end of this third year, while a mathematician has been appointed six months ago for a contract of two years. This application is to the e-science development fund for two programmers to support the mathematician in the final year of the project, one to continue GRID interfacing, and the second to assist in implementation of the Web browser interface and non-linear computer intensive analysis routines.

Summary

The overall purpose of this proposal is to develop a software platform for sharing and analysis of human functional electrical data. Our primary intention is to develop it for use in our area of expertise and professional interest, functional activity measured from the brain, mainly the Electroencephalogram (EEG). The underlying software platform has already been developed and is able to read and display EEG data in many formats, compress it, and permit its transmission across the Internet. This application is for funds to support an existing e-science project, BEP 17071. The goals of this are to develop and test a web site in which a range of programs is available for advanced analysis of brain signals. A particular additional feature is to use the new high speed academic Internet, the GRID. This is a new large-scale venture whereby many computers around the world can be easily shared in a user-friendly way where high-powered computing is needed. Some analysis programs for analyzing the EEG require exactly this, so this would be a great advance. Our intention is to create a global user group, sharing and analyzing this systems physiological data, using previously developed software as a platform. The current program employs a mathematical physicist for development of new procedures intended to maximise the potential provided by the GRID, and a programmer to develop access to the GRID using recently developed GRID usage software, called 'Middleware'. The application was voted as one of the top five GRID applications in the UK at the Condor week 2004. The existing program is currently is in the third year of four. At present, the programmer is due to leave at the end of this second year. This application is to the e-science development fund for two programmers to support the mathematician in the final year of the project, one to continue working on GRID access and the second to assist in development of some of the advanced analysis routines.

Committee	Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	EDF (e-science Development Fund) (EDF) [2003-2005]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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