PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15883626
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
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.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the computing of the plurality of two-dimensional slices further comprises marching radially outward from the centerline of the tubular structure to identify a set of geometric knots for each slice that define the boundary for the surface of the tubular structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13158
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12673089', '12542014', '12952325', '12200075', '11870546']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.347719702682263
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5395956622323216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3669072986372689
- Mean Citation Score: 201.048356
- Max Citation Score: 376.27682
- Similarity Product: 294.18152809276336

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

Dataset: test