A Calderon regularized symmetric formulation for the electroencephalography forward problem

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2018.07.048MaRDI QIDQ2002251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John E. Ortiz G., Axelle Pillain, Lyes Rahmouni, Francesco P. Andriulli

Publication date 11 July 2019

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08405

zbMATH Keywords

EEGboundary element methodCalderon solvers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55) Boundary element methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M38)

Abstract: The symmetric formulation of the electroencephalography (EEG) forward problem is a well-known and widespread equation thanks to the high level of accuracy that it delivers. However, this equation is first kind in nature and gives rise to ill-conditioned problems when the discretization density or the brain conductivity contrast increases, resulting in numerical instabilities and increasingly slow solutions. This work addresses and solves this problem by proposing a new regularized symmetric formulation. The new scheme is obtained by leveraging on Calderon identities which allow to introduce a dual symmetric equation that, combined with the standard one, results in a second kind operator which is both stable and well-conditioned under all the above mentioned conditions. The new formulation presented here can be easily integrated into existing EEG imaging packages since it can be obtained with the same computational technology required by the standard symmetric formulation. The performance of the new scheme is substantiated by both theoretical developments and numerical results which corroborate the theory and show the practical impact of the new technique.

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Cited in

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• On the modeling of brain fibers in the EEG forward problem via a new family of wire integral equations
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• FieldTrip
• OpenMEEG
• Brainstorm

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