PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924440
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system ( 10 ) for inspecting an object ( 97 ) in a volume ( 40 ). The ultrasound imaging system comprises an image processor ( 36 ) configured to conduct a segmentation ( 80 ) of the object ( 97 ) simultaneously out of three-dimensional ultrasound mage data ( 62 ) and contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data ( 60 ). In particular, this may be done by minimizing an energy term taking into account both the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data. By this, the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data may even be registered during segmentation. Hence, this invention allows a more precise quantification of one organ in two different modalities as well as the registration of two images for simultaneous visualization.

Claim (Index 1):
An ultrasound imaging system, comprising:\n an image processor configured to identify a segmentation boundary on an object using three-dimensional ultrasound image data and contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data, wherein the image processor is configured to identify the segmentation boundary by minimizing an energy term so that an initial geometric shape is deformed to substantially correspond to a boundary of the object, and wherein the energy term comprises a first term representing the three-dimensional ultrasound image data and a second term representing the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data, wherein the initial geometric shape is the same in both the first and the second term, and wherein the first term or the second term comprises a registering transformation for registering the three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97368
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14424087', '14770483', '15540297', '15634797', '14929806']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3600766046682712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5761610837340128
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3816850525748454
- Mean Citation Score: 304.674918
- Max Citation Score: 473.19846
- Similarity Product: 417.9678541130269

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test