We describe initial experience in echocardiographic image processing utilizing a high-speed eight-stage array processor capable of performing multiple sequential algorithms at the real-time video field rate. Algorithms implemented include noise reduction with recursive temporal filtering, Gaussian spatial filtering and edge-preserving smoothing; edge enhancement with the Sobel magnitude and angle operators and difference of Gaussian convolutions; and velocity quantification with convected activation, a recently described method to derive normal motion from a sequence of binary edge maps.