PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874405
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "130000"]

Abstract:
A method for segmentation of blood vessels is disclosed. The method comprises acquiring a plurality of images representing axial slices through a region of interest, defining a fascia layer between a muscular region and a subcutaneous region by defining a boundary between high intensity images and low intensity images, and determining a landmark of the blood vessel. A subcutaneous path between the landmark of the blood vessel and the fascia layer and an intramuscular path between the fascia layer and a landmark is calculated.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising removal of artefacts from the plurality of images.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06977
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15636754', '10428252', '13978919', '15563547', '11974548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2713210645595493
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159586049217567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2957848185957701
- Mean Citation Score: 140.48790200000002
- Max Citation Score: 144.75108
- Similarity Product: 70.63012863472939

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

Dataset: test