PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879126
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "128000"]

Abstract:
A method for analysing a sample comprising a first material and a second material of generally different densities and having a junction therebetween, the method comprising defining a region of interest in a cross sectional image of at least a portion of the sample that includes said junction, determining a density profile of the sample within the region of interest and crossing the junction, determining a representative density of said second material, and analysing said sample using said junction used to distinguish said first and second materials.

Claim (Index 29):
A system for assessing fracture risk of bone of a subject, the system comprising:\n a CT scanner configured to generate a CT image of a bone, the bone comprising a plurality of bone compartments, wherein the CT scanner is configured to transmit the image to an image processor configured to perform an analysis of the image; an output device configured to receive from the image processor at least one result of the analysis of the image; wherein the at least one result of the analysis is generated by image processor with a method comprising:\n defining a plurality of regions of interest within the image that include junctions between a first and a second of the compartments, each of said regions of interest having a width of one or more pixels or voxels; \n determining respective density, intensity or attenuation profiles within the regions of interest; and \n determining a location of the junctions including defining a first reference point (xi, 0) within one of said first and second compartments and employing the first reference point as current reference point, and\n (i) determining a closest point to said current reference point that is on said respective profile and in the other of said first and second compartments to that of the current reference point; \n (ii) locating a greatest difference in values of the respective profile between an adjacent peak and trough in a segment of the respective profile between said current reference point and said closest point; and \n (iii) locating a point of inflexion in said segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04444
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13395379', '14720004', '15398116', '15191079', '10753976']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4348808447181708
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5895303763220452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4503457978785582
- Mean Citation Score: 445.81445600000006
- Max Citation Score: 543.7178
- Similarity Product: 434.4488138537407

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

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