title: Signal processing: from mathematical theory to clinical acceptance or vice-versa?
abstract: Signal processing in physiology and medicine hasn't developed as well as one could have hoped in spite of important efforts in research. The bases for present techniques in signal processing are evaluated for the two types of signals encountered in physiology, namely, continuous signals and point processes. It seems that morphological analysis ought to be adapted to the study of continuous physiological signals and that point processes constitute an important form of signals. The principal areas where industrial development can be expected are explored.
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D003201:Computers; D004582:Electronics, Medical; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D013997:Time Factors; D014159:Transducers