System and method for facilitating dbs electrode trajectory planning

A computer-implemented system configured to facilitate identifying targets of interest (TOI) for deep brain stimulation (DBS), the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a persistent memory having program instructions stored thereon, the program instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, configured to perform:
• obtaining a set of medical imaging data pertaining to human cranial anatomy, the set of medical imaging data sampled from a plurality of humans in one or more imaging modalities, wherein the medical imaging data comprises image slices taken along at least one of coronal, sagittal and axial planes relative to the human cranial anatomy;
• re-slicing at least a portion of the medical imaging data through one or more planes that are at an angular orientation with respect to at least one of the coronal, sagittal and axial planes, thereby obtaining re-sliced medical imaging data;
• training a first artificial neural network (ANN) engine using a portion of the medical imaging data that has not been re-sliced and a portion of the re-sliced medical imaging data, wherein the medical imaging data is appropriately labeled, to generate a validated and tested ANN engine configured to identify one or more TOIs in a human brain image;
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• in response to an input image of a patient's brain obtained using a particular imaging modality, executing the first ANN engine to identify at least one particular TOI in the patient's brain for DBS.