title: A novel approach for Doppler blood flow measurement.
abstract: A new approach to frequency estimation for the velocity estimation in Doppler ultrasound blood flow analysis is presented. The basis of the approach is an adaptive sinusoid-tracking algorithm which is effective in extracting nonstationary signals from within noise and estimating their time-varying parameters, such as the frequency, over time. The preliminary studies conducted using simulated signals show the potential of this approach in estimating Doppler frequency shifts under noisy conditions. A qualitative comparison with the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) is presented to show the advantages of the proposed technique over the STFT. The proposed approach offers advantages over conventional time-frequency analysis techniques in terms of high time-frequency resolution and high noise immunity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, 13676 USA. mcnamadm@clarkson.edu
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: McNamara
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goli
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ziarani
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data