PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16097285
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["382", "128000"]

Abstract:
A method of providing a medical image of a ROI of a patient, the method comprising: acquiring a first medical image of a region of interest (ROI) of a patient, the medical image characterized hy a first signal to noise ratio (SNR); determining for a given pixel in the first image a plurality of different first image patches in the first image, each having a pixel that is coincident with the given pixel; determining for each first image patch a similar second image patch having a second SNR greater than the first SNR; determining an enhanced pixel value for the given pixel having an enhanced SNR greater than the first SNR responsive to pixel values of pixels in the determined second image patches; and using the determined pixel value to generate a second medical image of the ROI having an enhanced SNR greater than the first SNR.

Claim (Index 7):
The medical imaging system according to  claim 6  wherein a pixel value of the pixel in the ANN patch that is homologous with the pixel in the first image patch associated with the ANN patch that is coincident with the given pixel is weighted by a measure of similarity between the ANN patch and a first image patch centered on the given first image pixel, computed for their overlapping pixels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80702
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15466639', '10880486', '14596869', '11985526', '15468089']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3594773630710343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4952391790031293
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3730535446642438
- Mean Citation Score: 191.029878
- Max Citation Score: 198.43742
- Similarity Product: 129.60389349351289

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