Systems are provided for managing, planning and displaying the location of
biopsy core sites across multiple same-patient visits or other stored
biopsy plans to increase the confidence and accuracy of biopsy results.
The systems may allow the operator to fuse multiple predefined and/or
automatically generated biopsy core site plans in addition to previous
biopsy sites with a current prostate image to assist in creating a final
new biopsy core site plan. Further, the system may allow the operator to
selectively view singular parts of the final plan to simplify the
planning process. Further, the systems may assist the operator during the
navigation phase of the biopsy by hiding biopsy core sites from the final
plan that are not of immediate interest during the biopsy phase and
thereby reducing clutter and distraction during biopsy sample
acquisition.