PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["382", "132000"]

Abstract:
The embodiments relate to a method, an apparatus, and a computer program for evaluating an x-ray image of a breast produced during a mammography. In order to simplify the evaluation of such an x-ray image in respect of the breast density, a method is proposed to automatically determine the masking risk caused by the mammographically dense tissue and to use this for categorizing, describing, and/or representing the breast density.

Claim (Index 2):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the connectivity of the dense breast tissue is taken into account by applying a morphological opening method.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15308135', '15321525', '12317530', '14261376', '12223550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3528394693929201
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5977932778956903
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3773348502431971
- Mean Citation Score: 295.7860740000001
- Max Citation Score: 515.19025
- Similarity Product: 468.9247221883387

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test