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The Brain Data Base (BDB) is an innovative database that keeps (in a structural way) those anatomical and functional features of the human brain, suitable for applying the principles of biomagnetism in order to localize epileptic foci. It handles complex and non-uniform 3-D objects and admits efficient query evaluation through state-of the art computational geometry techniques. The proposed logical model of the BDB may serve as a framework for other specialized databases which deal with non-standard and involved topological information.
The experimental results that are presented in this paper have been implemented in order to derive a first prototype report, within the framework of the CEC-Program AIM, Project A2020 Magnobrain. This study conforms to the spirit of the pilot projects to be done in the U.S. Brain Mapping Initiative.
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Anogianakis, G., Krotopoulou, A., Spirakis, P., Terpou, D., Tsakalidis, A. (1993). Brain data base (BDB). In: Mařík, V., Lažanský, J., Wagner, R.R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 720. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57234-1_32
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