PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
Methods, devices, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for performing mammography, such as utilizing tomosynthesis in combination with breast biopsy.

Claim (Index 49):
A method for needle localization for breast biopsy, said method comprising:\n positioning a biopsy needle in a breast based at least in part on three-dimensional coordinates of an area of interest; performing a tomosynthesis scan of a patient's breast using a source of an imaging x-ray beam that moves through a plurality of imaging positions along a source trajectory, wherein the plurality of imaging positions comprise interfered positions where image data includes an artifact of the biopsy needle and non-interfered positions where image data does not include the artifact of the biopsy needle; and processing the image data obtained from both the interfered and non-interfered positions to obtain from the image data (i) tomosynthesis projection images of the breast taken from more than two of the imaging positions of the source relative to the breast and (ii) tomosynthesis reconstructed slice images representing respective slices of the breast, wherein processing the image data comprises reducing an appearance of the artifacts of the biopsy needle in the tomosynthesis projection images and the tomosynthesis reconstructed slice images.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.09524
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11707587', '14021624', '13703647', '12715591', '14693863']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4748195905940371
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.559798033662986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.483317434900932
- Mean Citation Score: 344.666224
- Max Citation Score: 448.70273
- Similarity Product: 383.3593540374249

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