PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16191797
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["382", "132000"]

Abstract:
The embodiments relate to a method, an apparatus, and a computer program for evaluating an x-ray image of a breast produced during a mammography. In order to simplify the evaluation of such an x-ray image in respect of the breast density, a method is proposed to automatically determine the masking risk caused by the mammographically dense tissue and to use this for categorizing, describing, and/or representing the breast density.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for evaluating an x-ray image of a breast produced during mammography, the method comprising:\n automatically producing, by a processor, a masking risk map for a region of the breast depicted in the x-ray image, wherein the producing takes into account a connectivity of dense breast tissue, wherein the masking risk map comprises masking risk values that quantify a masking risk, and wherein the masking risk map further comprises one or more categorizing levels of masking risk; automatically determining, by the processor, an overall masking risk of the breast caused by the dense breast tissue; and generating a breast density report using the overall masking risk.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15308135', '15321525', '12317530', '14261376', '12223550']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3241832017402573
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.600907838827047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3518556654489362
- Mean Citation Score: 295.7860740000001
- Max Citation Score: 515.19025
- Similarity Product: 494.5678585262

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

Dataset: test