A method and device for automatically detecting heart valve damage for
four heart valves are proposed. The automatic determination method makes
use of three or more heart tone microphones to simultaneously record
heart tones of a patient's heart, and then separates the heart tones into
four heart tone signals of the aortic valve, the pulmonary valve, the
tricuspid valve and the mitral valve of the heart based on the timing
characteristics and related techniques. Next, these four heart tone
signals are digitally processed into sampling signals. Subsequently, the
convolution method is used to process the sampling signals for producing
system transfer functions. Finally, the system transfer functions and the
reference database are compared to verify and determine damage for the
four heart valves. The automatic determination method can judge heart
valve damage to enhance the quality and convenience of medical treatment.