PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990131
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "424000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for volumetric segmentation of structures in planar medical images. One example method includes displaying a first planar medical image. The method further includes receiving a user input indicating a line segment in the first planar medical image. The method also includes determining an inclusion region using the line segment. The inclusion region consists of a portion of the structure. The method further includes determining a containment region using the line segment. The containment region includes the structure. The method also includes determining a background region using the line segment. The background region excludes the structure. The method further includes determining a three dimensional (3D) contour of the structure using the inclusion region, the containment region, and the background region. The method also includes determining a long axis of the structure using the 3D contour. The method further includes outputting a dimension of the long axis.

Claim (Index 10):
A system for determining volumetric segmentation of a structure in a plurality of planar medical images, the system comprising:\n a display; a user interface; and an electronic processor configured to\n receive the plurality of planar medical images, wherein the plurality of planar medical images form a three dimensional (3D) volume including the structure and a plurality of voxels, \n display, on the display, a first planar medical image from the plurality of planar medical images, \n receive, with the user interface, a user input indicating a line segment in the first planar medical image, \n determine an inclusion region of the 3D volume using the line segment, wherein the inclusion region consists of a portion of the structure, \n determine a containment region of the 3D volume using the line segment, wherein the containment region includes the structure, \n determine a background region of 3D volume using the line segment, wherein the background region excludes the structure, \n classify the voxels located within the containment region as belonging to either a foreground class or a background class using the inclusion region, the containment region, and the background region, \n determine a 3D contour of the structure based on a border in the 3D volume between the voxels belonging to the foreground class and the voxels belonging to the background class, \n determine a long axis of the structure using the 3D contour of the structure, and \n output a dimension of the long axis of the structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09434
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12045327', '11349793', '15225597', '11940380', '14474407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6369107893076438
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908352849204713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6223032388689266
- Mean Citation Score: 195.027488
- Max Citation Score: 196.92326
- Similarity Product: 130.60481549456836

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

Dataset: test