AN ARCHITECTURE FOR EEG SIGNAL-PROCESSING AND INTERPRETATION DURING SLEEP (ESPIS)

The project's aim is to develop a dedicated workstation in order to pr ocess multiple channels of electrophysiological signals in real-time d uring sleep. In ESPIS we are aiming to define both an architecture and an environment for EEG signal interpretation in medicine based on com puter science gold standards (Unix, XWindow, Motif). Signal processing and pattern recognition analysis are provided by parallel processing on a specific developed acquisition architecture (DSP) based on transp uters. The main result is a high performance prototype demonstrating s ignal interpretation during sleep which has already been tested in a m edical environment. The overall specifications allow this biomedical d evice to be extended to other types of medical signals.