PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15924440
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system ( 10 ) for inspecting an object ( 97 ) in a volume ( 40 ). The ultrasound imaging system comprises an image processor ( 36 ) configured to conduct a segmentation ( 80 ) of the object ( 97 ) simultaneously out of three-dimensional ultrasound mage data ( 62 ) and contrast-enhanced three-dimensional ultrasound image data ( 60 ). In particular, this may be done by minimizing an energy term taking into account both the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data. By this, the normal three-dimensional ultrasound image data and the contrast-enhanced three-dimensional image data may even be registered during segmentation. Hence, this invention allows a more precise quantification of one organ in two different modalities as well as the registration of two images for simultaneous visualization.

Claim (Index 19):
The method of  claim 18 , wherein the registering transformation is affine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97368
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14424087', '14770483', '15540297', '15634797', '14929806']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3964448720053937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5588409321321808
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4126844780180724
- Mean Citation Score: 304.674918
- Max Citation Score: 473.19846
- Similarity Product: 298.0499308049369

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

Dataset: test