Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems that provide a curved path trajectory that can be used with a bendable medical device. The curved pathway can comprise straight and curved concatenated arc segments. The methods and systems can provide planning, visualizing and treatment of, for example, temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) using laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) or tumors using ablation therapy.

Abstract: A system for processing data includes a processing pipeline, a progressive cache, and a cache manager. The progressive cache includes stages connected serially to each other so that an output element of a previous stage is sent as an input element to a next stage. A first stage is configured to receive input for a processing request. A last stage is configured to produce output corresponding to the input. The progressive cache includes caches arranged in an order from least finished cache elements to most finished cache elements. Each cache of the progressive cache receives an output cache element of a corresponding stage of the processing pipeline and sends an input cache element to a next stage after the corresponding stage.