PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16155943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.

Claim (Index 20):
A non-transitory computer readable storage media comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to\n receive a 3-D image of a 3-D object representing a bone of interest of a mammal, wherein the 3-D object comprises at least a surface of the bone of interest and at least an internal voxel; generate a filled bone mask of the bone of interest, wherein the filled bone mask includes at least the surface of the bone of interest and at least the internal voxel; generate a skeleton of the bone of interest by performing 3D thinning; and determine a 3-D central axis of the bone of interest, wherein the 3-D central axis corresponds to a medial path through the 3-D object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081788', '14812483', '15985070', '11036439', '12624519']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.338691194881238
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.582396728565261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3630617482496403
- Mean Citation Score: 278.036962
- Max Citation Score: 497.96326
- Similarity Product: 431.020074695878

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

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