MODELING A CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BIOSIGNAL FEDERATED DATABANK FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

摘要

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an effective treatment for advanced Parkinson's disease and offers the unique opportunity to record signals from the deep brain structures. All these data are usually stored in the archive of the hospital performing the intervention and, except for that centers that also have research aims, they are no more processed or analyzed. Conversely, these data, if available for further analysis, could drive to a better understanding and to an optimization also of this complex treatment. In this work we propose a data model for a web-based biosignal databank for single-unit recordings collection. The idea here developed is to build up a system in which all the data generated during DBS surgeries in different hospitals and centers become sharable and available for the scientific community.