PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16414819
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
A computer implemented method for determining a centerline of a three-dimensional tubular structure is described. The method includes providing an edge-detected data set of voxels that characterize a boundary of the tubular structure according to a three-dimensional voxel data set for the tubular structure. A gradient field of a distance transformation is computed for the edge-detected dataset. A voxel data set corresponding to a centerline of the tubular structure is computed according to derivative of gradient field. A trajectory within the tubular structure is computed based on the centerline.

Claim (Index 10):
The medium of  claim 8 , wherein the method further comprises controlling a steerable medical device to traverse the tubular structure according to the computed trajectory which includes causing a distal end portion of the steerable medical device to travel along the curved path from the main trunk to the corresponding branch or from the corresponding branch to the main trunk.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2381
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15883626', '12673089', '12542014', '12200075', '14642467']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3182279450217402
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5450740744372495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3409125579632911
- Mean Citation Score: 249.054142
- Max Citation Score: 379.68262
- Similarity Product: 316.35028325595863

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