PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
A method for determining a surrogate respiratory signal for four-dimensional computed tomography using ultrasound data includes acquiring computed tomography data with a computed tomography imaging system ( 402 ), acquiring ultrasound data with an ultrasound probe of an ultrasound imaging system ( 404 ) concurrently with acquiring the computed tomography data during one or more respiratory cycles, wherein the ultrasound probe is aligned to acquire an image of a diaphragm of a subject, synchronizing the acquired computed tomography data and the acquired ultrasound data, and determining a surrogate respiratory signal from the acquired ultrasound data.

Claim (Index 20):
A computer readable storage medium encoded with computer readable instructions, which, when executed by a processor of a computing system, causes the processor to:\n concurrently acquire computed tomography data and ultrasound data; determine a surrogate respiratory signal from the ultrasound data; synchronize the acquired computed tomography data and the acquired ultrasound data; bin image slices of the computed tomography data that have a similar amplitude based on the surrogate respiratory signal; sort the binned image slices based a subject support position; and combine the sorted image slices by concatenating the sorted images into a three dimensional volume corresponding to respiratory phase.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12766
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14525360', '13344667', '10599084', '15567492', '13381206']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3656870404177791
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5040761369401322
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3795259500700144
- Mean Citation Score: 235.53425
- Max Citation Score: 266.42926
- Similarity Product: 194.4834396183598

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

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