A surgical guidance system , comprising: a memory ; a rendering device; an ultrasound probe ; a shape-sensing-device (SSD) associated with the ultrasound probe and having a predetermined position and orientation with regard to the ultrasound probe; and a controller coupled to the memory, the rendering device and the SSD, the controller configured to: determine at least one of location and orientation of the ultrasound probe based upon position sensor information (PSI) received from the SSD, select a view of a plurality of views of a workflow that are stored in the memory; obtain view setting information (VSI) for the selected view from the memory, the VSI comprising parameters and at least one of a position and orientation of the ultrasound probe for each of the views, determine guidance information based upon a comparison of the determined location and orientation of the ultrasound probe and the at least one of a position and orientation of the ultrasound probe for the selected view, and characterized in that the controller is further configured to render the determined guidance information on the rendering device and set ultrasound probe parameters based on the parameters of the VSI for the selected view. a memory ; a rendering device; an ultrasound probe ; a shape-sensing-device (SSD) associated with the ultrasound probe and having a predetermined position and orientation with regard to the ultrasound probe; and a controller coupled to the memory, the rendering device and the SSD, the controller configured to: determine at least one of location and orientation of the ultrasound probe based upon position sensor information (PSI) received from the SSD, select a view of a plurality of views of a workflow that are stored in the memory; obtain view setting information (VSI) for the selected view from the memory, the VSI comprising parameters and at least one of a position and orientation of the ultrasound probe for each of the views, determine guidance information based upon a comparison of the determined location and orientation of the ultrasound probe and the at least one of a position and orientation of the ultrasound probe for the selected view, and characterized in that the controller is further configured to render the determined guidance information on the rendering device and set ultrasound probe parameters based on the parameters of the VSI for the selected view. determine at least one of location and orientation of the ultrasound probe based upon position sensor information (PSI) received from the SSD, select a view of a plurality of views of a workflow that are stored in the memory; obtain view setting information (VSI) for the selected view from the memory, the VSI comprising parameters and at least one of a position and orientation of the ultrasound probe for each of the views, determine guidance information based upon a comparison of the determined location and orientation of the ultrasound probe and the at least one of a position and orientation of the ultrasound probe for the selected view, and characterized in that the controller is further configured to render the determined guidance information on the rendering device and set ultrasound probe parameters based on the parameters of the VSI for the selected view. <EOS>