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 20):
The medium of  claim 15 , having stored thereon instructions which when executed cause the processor to perform at least one of:\n placing markers on the flexible mesh paddle; embedding X-ray attenuating material in gel of a gel-filled pad; identifying anatomical markers on a patient's skin; using a camera-based vision system; performing a gray scale quantification of the imaging data, computing a scatter estimation on the gray scale quantification, and deconvolving the breast thickness from the scatter estimation and the gray scale quantification; utilizing height readout of an ultrasound probe scanning mechanism; calculating the scatter estimation by interpolating between scan views of the imaging data using information regarding the resemblance between adjacent scatter maps across view angles; utilizing the curvature of the compression paddle and compression paddle height reported by the system; and generating a dataset containing nominal breast thickness data, a skin line profile, compression force data, and a breast thickness profile, calculating a deformation of the breast based on an impact of the compression force data and mechanical properties of the breast, and calculating the breast thickness estimation using the breast deformation result.

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): 0.6833397240446851
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5199378162693661
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6669995332671532
- Mean Citation Score: 269.57883000000004
- Max Citation Score: 419.66666
- Similarity Product: 387.5349207748294

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