Surgical systems and methods for facilitating tissue treatment

A surgical system for use in treating tissue of a patient's anatomy based on patient-specific imaging data, the surgical system comprising:

• an external fixation system including:
• a fixation element configured to engage bone at a target site, and a plurality of stabilizers for constructing an external fixation frame to support the fixation element;
• a display unit to display visual content overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within a field of view observable by a user;
• and
• a computing device coupled to the display unit, the computing device comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a visualization program that when executed by the one or more processors is configured to:
• generate a virtual reference frame,
• identify at least one viable fixation approach for the fixation element of the external fixation system to engage bone based on the patient-specific imaging data,
• arrange a virtual stabilizer model within the virtual reference frame, the virtual stabilizer model being associated with one of the plurality of stabilizers of the external fixation system, and
• render at least a portion of the virtual stabilizer model in the visual content displayed by the display unit overlaid onto the patient's anatomy within the field of view to assist the user in constructing the external fixation frame of the external fixation system.