Optimal route planning for image-guided EBUS bronchoscopy.

Xiaonan Zang¹, Jason D Gibbs², Ronnarit Cheirsilp³, Patrick D Byrnes⁴, Jennifer Toth⁵, Rebecca Bascom⁵, William E Higgins⁶

¹School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA; EDDA Technologies, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA.

²School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA; X-Nav Technologies, Lansdale, PA, 19446, USA.

³School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA; Broncus Medical, San Jose, CA, USA.

⁴School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA.

⁵Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Penn State University, University Park and Hershey, PA, USA.

⁶School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, USA. Electronic address: weh2@psu.edu.

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Abstract

The staging of the central-chest lymph nodes is a major lung-cancer management procedure. To perform a staging procedure, the physician first uses a patient's 3D X-ray computed-tomography (CT) chest scan to interactively plan airway routes leading to selected target lymph nodes. Next, using an integrated EBUS bronchoscope (EBUS = endobronchial ultrasound), the physician uses videobronchoscopy to n…

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