PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777263
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["600", "424000"]

Abstract:
Ultrasound's value in the neurosurgical operating room is maximized when fused with pre-operative images, The disclosed system enables real-time multimodal image fusion by estimating the ultrasound's pose with use of an image-based registration constrained by sensor measurements and pre-operative image data. Once the ultrasound data is collected and viewed, it can be used to update the pre-operative image, and make changes to the pre-operative plan. If a surgical navigation system is available for integration, the system has the capacity to produce a 3D ultrasound volume, probe-to-tracker calibration, as well as an optical-to-patient registration. This 3D ultrasound volume, and optical-to-patient registration can be updated with conventional deformable registration algorithms and tracked ultrasound data from the surgical navigation system. The system can also enable real-time image-guidance of tools visible under ultrasound by providing context from the registered pre-operative image when said tools are instrumented with sensors to help constrain their pose.

Claim (Index 22):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein a surgical tool, visible in the ultrasound images, has its position estimated with the data in the ultrasound image, and additional sensors to help constrain the possible poses of the tool.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79121
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15422683', '15646946', '14769668', '13741610', '14655814']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5399277447499272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952265157047905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5354576218454136
- Mean Citation Score: 255.186614
- Max Citation Score: 272.397
- Similarity Product: 204.2103996398449

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