Detection of Doppler Microembolic Signals Using High Order Statistics

Table 2

Results (sensitivity and specificity) for the standard energy detector and the new detectors based on skewness and kurtosis calculations of the Doppler energy signal.

Detector type	True positive	False positive	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
Gold standard detections = 136
Standard detection	88	58	65	60
Skewness detection	106	10	78	91
Kurtosis detection	109	12	80	90