Computer processing of cardiac Doppler signals

A computer processing method has been developed for the extraction of parameters from cardiac Doppler signals. This method is based on the nature of these signals and on the method of their measurement. The parameters are estimated after background subtraction from adequately smoothed spectrograms. The improvement gained by this method of parameter extraction from smoothed spectrograms, rather than from raw spectrograms, is demonstrated. The method is used successfully in a reference value study of cardiac Doppler signals.