PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["378", "022000"]

Abstract:
A method of breast image reconstruction includes positioning a breast on an imaging system support plate, compressing the breast with a flexible paddle, obtaining imaging data, estimating a breast thickness profile by at least one of placing markers on the breast, performing an image-based analysis of the obtained data, using an auxiliary system, and performing a model-based computation. The three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction including using a thickness profile of the breast surface in at least one of an iterative reconstruction, a filtered back-projection reconstruction, and a joint reconstruction performed using information obtained from an ultrasound scan. A non-transitory medium having executable instructions to cause a processor to perform the method is also disclosed.

Claim (Index 19):
The medium of  claim 16 , having stored thereon instructions which when executed cause the processor to perform the steps of:\n designating a thin layer of external voxels which are neighboring to the top surface and a thin layer of internal voxels which are neighboring to the top surface as a buffer layer to the model; performing back-projection to the model; applying a smoothing function over the buffer layer; and using the output as initial input for iterative reconstruction; wherein artifacts in a forward projection of the image data are removed, and a geometry prior is integrated into the iterative reconstruction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76056
- Patent Class: 378.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15062838', '14572416', '10776690', '14895717', '14312434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6829880887207244
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5206257999152013
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.666751859840172
- Mean Citation Score: 269.57883000000004
- Max Citation Score: 419.66666
- Similarity Product: 395.3296089552712

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

Dataset: test