Abstract: A system for modeling a necrotized tissue volume in an ablation procedure includes a radiology workstation designed and configured to provide a computer model of a volume of human tissue based on corporeal image data, simulate an ablation site in the computer model, detect, in the computer model, at least a preferential pathway for heated vapor produced due to ablation of the tissue, wherein the at least a preferential pathway intersects the ablation site, determine a proportion of vapor escaping to the at least a preferential pathway during an ablation procedure, determiner a heat distribution at the ablation site as a function of the distribution of vapor, and generate a simulation of a necrotized tissue volume in the volume of tissue, wherein the simulation of the necrotized tissue volume represents a volume of tissue necrotized by heat during an ablation procedure performed at the ablation site.

Abstract: A system for ablation treatment of tissues including at least one tissue ablation device, an ablation device controller communicatively connected to the at least one tissue ablation device, and an imaging component, wherein the imaging component is configured to capture a captured image that includes a representation of the tissue ablation device. The system further including an ablation device identification component configured to receive the captured image, generate a plurality of region proposals from the captured image, extract a plurality of feature vectors from the plurality of region proposals, determine a class for each region proposal of the plurality of region proposals, and determine the position and orientation of the tissue ablation device as a function of the classes for each region proposal.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a multi-probe ablation simulation and guidance system and method for use in tissue ablation procedures. In use, the relative locations of a plurality of ablation probes capable of providing ablation energy are determined, and the effect of energy provided by the probes based on the determined locations is predicted to identify a simulated ablation volume. This simulated ablation volume is compared with a target tissue volume. The relative locations of the probes can be adjusted based on the comparison between the simulated ablation volume and the target tissue volume, and the predicted effect rerun until the simulated ablation volume encompasses the target tissue volume to be ablated and necrotized.