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 6):
The method of  claim 5 , wherein the morphological processing further comprises:\n performing 3-D binary dilation of the binary bone mask of the bone of interest to form a dilated bone mask; and wherein the identifying and filling borders, internal voxels, and/or morphological holes of the bone mask further comprises\n identifying and filling borders, internal voxels, and/or morphological holes of the dilated bone mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081788', '14812483', '15985070', '11036439', '12624519']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3685124568838128
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5779595528900703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3894571664844386
- Mean Citation Score: 278.036962
- Max Citation Score: 497.96326
- Similarity Product: 396.1772827527381

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

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