PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for improving optical coherence tomography machine outputs through multiple enface optical coherence tomography angiography averaging techniques. The embodiments disclosed herein can be utilized in ophthalmology for employing optical coherence tomography (OCT) for in vivo visualization of blood vessels and the flow of blood in an eye of a patient, which is also known generally as optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The embodiments disclosed herein can use linear registration, affine registration and/or elastic registration to align a plurality of optical coherence tomography angiography images or videos at corresponding superficial vascular layers having well-defined features or landmarks, and to apply the same linear registration, affine registration and/or elastic registration settings and/or data to corresponding deeper tissue layers, such as the choriocapillaris, which generally do not have well-defined features or landmarks, in order to align a plurality of corresponding deeper tissue layers for the purpose of averaging the images or video to produce a clearer and more accurate image or video of the tissue structure at deeper tissue layers.

Claim (Index 20):
The system of  claim 11 , wherein one or more hardware computer processors in communication with the one or more computer readable storage devices is further configured to execute the plurality of computer executable instructions in order to cause the system to reconstruct, from the plurality of sectors of the enface OCT images the one or more superficial layers, a plurality of aligned enface images of the one or more superficial layers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04301
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15927966', '15219046', '15015587', '15629502', '15091288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3181874701749539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6116141064238403
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3475301337998425
- Mean Citation Score: 313.6820780000001
- Max Citation Score: 654.79364
- Similarity Product: 441.8765904422403

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