When the heart beats, ventricular ejection is performed to genertate a
pulse wave which is transmitted to the
whole body at a certain velocity. The
pulse wave velocity (PWV) refers to the velocity of the
pulse wave which is transmitted from one position of an
artery to another position of the
artery. The parameter is always used in the diagnosis of vascular diseases and particularly used to judge the degree of
vascular sclerosis. When the degree of
vascular sclerosis increases, the arterial compliance is reduced and the PWV is increased. The current noninvasive measurement method of the PWV is to divide the length of a
blood vessel by the
conduction time of the pulse wave in the
blood vessel, thus how to correctly identify the initial beating point becomes a main problem for calculating the PWV. The computation method of the invention utilizes
wavelet transform to extract the initial beating point of the pulse wave. The method comprises the following steps: the multiresolution
decomposition method is utilized to decompose the pulse wave, the a'trous
algorithm is used to ensure that the
decomposition result has the same length of the original
signal and the detailed and general information of the pulse wave can be obtained; and the result of
wavelet transform is compared with the pulse wave, and an obvious peak appears at the initial beating point of the pulse wave in the
decomposition result of the pulse wave, thus the position of the initial beating point can be obtained through the comparison of the decomposition result and the pulse wave.