A surgical system for use in treating tissue of a patient's anatomy at a target site, with a stabilizer and a fixation element, based on patient-specific imaging data, the surgical system comprising: a localizer to generate patient location data associated with a location of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; a display unit to display visual content overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within a field of view observable by a user; and a computing device coupled to the localizer and the display unit, the computing device comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a visualization program that when executed by the one or more processors is configured to: generate a virtual reference frame, identify a plurality of different fixation approaches for the fixation element to engage tissue and secure the stabilizer relative to the target site, with the plurality of different fixation approaches delineated between one or more viable fixation approaches and one or more non-viable fixation approaches based on the patient-specific imaging data, arrange a virtual viability model within the virtual reference frame based on the patient location data, the virtual viability model comprising at least one of: one or more viable portions associated with the viable fixation approaches; and one or more non-viable portions associated with the non-viable fixation approaches, and render at least a portion of the virtual viability model in the visual content displayed by the display unit overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within the field of view to assist the user in visualizing at least one of: the one or more viable fixation approaches; and the one or more non-viable fixation approaches. a localizer to generate patient location data associated with a location of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; a display unit to display visual content overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within a field of view observable by a user; and a computing device coupled to the localizer and the display unit, the computing device comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a visualization program that when executed by the one or more processors is configured to: generate a virtual reference frame, identify a plurality of different fixation approaches for the fixation element to engage tissue and secure the stabilizer relative to the target site, with the plurality of different fixation approaches delineated between one or more viable fixation approaches and one or more non-viable fixation approaches based on the patient-specific imaging data, arrange a virtual viability model within the virtual reference frame based on the patient location data, the virtual viability model comprising at least one of: one or more viable portions associated with the viable fixation approaches; and one or more non-viable portions associated with the non-viable fixation approaches, and render at least a portion of the virtual viability model in the visual content displayed by the display unit overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within the field of view to assist the user in visualizing at least one of: the one or more viable fixation approaches; and the one or more non-viable fixation approaches. generate a virtual reference frame, identify a plurality of different fixation approaches for the fixation element to engage tissue and secure the stabilizer relative to the target site, with the plurality of different fixation approaches delineated between one or more viable fixation approaches and one or more non-viable fixation approaches based on the patient-specific imaging data, arrange a virtual viability model within the virtual reference frame based on the patient location data, the virtual viability model comprising at least one of: one or more viable portions associated with the viable fixation approaches; and one or more non-viable portions associated with the non-viable fixation approaches, and render at least a portion of the virtual viability model in the visual content displayed by the display unit overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within the field of view to assist the user in visualizing at least one of: the one or more viable fixation approaches; and the one or more non-viable fixation approaches.