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 31):
A computer-implemented method of detecting fracture-vulnerable bone of a subject, of assessing a structure of bone of a subject, of diagnosing the effects of a disease or abnormality in a subject, of monitoring the effects of a disease or abnormality in a subject, of quantifying the effects of a treatment of a subject, of detecting fracture-vulnerable bone of a subject or of assessing a structure of bone of a subject, the bone comprising a plurality of bone compartments, the method comprising:\n generating with a CT scanner a CT image of a bone; transmitting the image to an image processor configured to perform an analysis of the image; and receiving 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 the image processor with a method comprising:\n (i) automatically 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 (ii) determining respective profiles of density, intensity or attenuation within the regions of interest, each of the respective profiles crossing the respective junctions; \n (iii) automatically identifying the material of interest in the profiles; \n (iv) analysing said profiles by automatically defining, for each of said profiles, a series of sections of said respective profile, each of said sections comprising at least one S-like portion of the respective profile, the S-like portion containing a respective junction; and \n (v) locating the junction in each of the S-like portions, including: (a) identifying the greatest difference in values of the respective profile between an adjacent peak and trough in a segment of the respective profile that includes at least some of the first and second compartments; and (b) 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): 0.4323950321422419
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5956674222964193
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4487222711576596
- Mean Citation Score: 445.81445600000006
- Max Citation Score: 543.7178
- Similarity Product: 460.3365388202191

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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