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The color Doppler echocardiography allows the clinician and researchers to indentify the blood flow patterns, direction, and velocity in case any dis-functioning like valvular and regurgitation stenosis. Jet area is the most used method by the clinicians for MR severity because it is directly propositional to severity of MR. Methods A method is developed for automatic segmentation of jet area and finding the jet area value in numerical terms. Intensity based region growing has been used for segmentation. Before this some preprocessing steps have been applied to make the image suitable for intensity based region growing. Total nine images have been examined taken from the different patients suffering from mitral regurgitation. Results Proposed method finds the two cases are under the moderate MR category and other seven detected as the case of severe MR. in case of clinical point of view three cases are to be found under the moderate and six under the category of sever MR. Conclusions This work is expected to enhance the clinician’s capability in fast determining the extent of severity of mitral regurgitation. The algorithm developed is capable of removing the spurious areas during the process of segmentation.