Accurate Planning and Guidance of Bronchoscopy for Lung Cancer Management

The main objective of this project is to demonstrate the potential of three new technical innovations for improving state-of-the-art bronchoscopy guidance systems. Through this study, we plan to generate preliminary data that demonstrates the potential of three new innovations for enhancing existing bronchoscopy systems in the live clinical setting. The goal is to demonstrate the potential of the new innovations: 1. to demonstrate the potential of a new methodology to reduce errors from CT-to-body divergence in the live clinical setting, 2. to demonstrate the potential of the new methodologies to enable live rerouting of a guided bronchoscopy, and 3. to perform automatic real-time mucosal lesion detection during a standard airway examination. These innovations could potentially improve current image-guided bronchoscopy systems and be used for future robotic bronchoscopy.