Patent ID: 8585598

Claim:
A method for image guided surgery, comprising: determining, with a computer system, device type information for a first medical device; determining, with the computer system, real-time emplacement information for the first medical device; determining, with the computer system, real-time emplacement information for a second medical device; determining the real-time relative emplacements of the first and second medical devices with the computer system; determining a 2D image plane based at least on the real-time emplacement information for the second medical device; determining, with the computer system, at least based on the device type of the first medical device, real-time prediction information for the first medical device, wherein the prediction information comprises a plurality of graphical indicators of the real-time relative emplacement of a plurality of portions of the first medical device with respect to the image plane, wherein each graphical indicator indicates whether a corresponding portion of the first medical device is in a proximal or distal position with respect to the image plane; receiving, in real-time, a 2D image corresponding to at least a portion of the determined 2D image plane from the second medical device; determining a perspective view of the 2D image within a virtual 3D space in response to real-time relative emplacement information for the second medical device with respect to a position of a user; generating image guidance information, with the computer system, based at least on the real-time relative emplacements of the first and second medical devices and the real-time prediction information for the first medical device; causing one or more displays to display a graphical rendering of the image guidance information; and causing the one or more displays to display in real time the perspective view of the 2D image within the virtual 3D space based at least on the relative emplacement information for the second medical device with respect to the position of the user.