Voxel tagging using fiber optic shape sensing

A system,comprising:

• a device having at least one optical fiber configured to sense induced strain in the device;
• a data source comprising a monitoring device that monitors one or more health parameters, wherein the data source generates event data including health parameter data associated with an event or status and the event data is not derived from sensing by the at least one optical fiber;
• a processor;
• a memory that stores an index-based voxel coordinate lookup table where indexed bins, corresponding to positions in a volume to be mapped, store the event data to provide a history of a number of visits to corresponding positions by the at least one optical fiber and the event data associated with the positions in the volume;
• an interpretation module stored in the memory, said interpretation module being configured to receive signals from the at least one optical fiber interacting with the volume and to interpret the signals to determine visited positions by the at least one optical fiber within the volume;
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• a display that renders a map of the visited positions in the volume and indicates the event data associated with the positions.

A method for mapping a volume, comprising:

• acquiring a data set of visited positions in the volume by exploring the volume with a fiber optic shape sensing enabled device;
• acquiring event data from at least one data source comprising a monitoring device that monitors one or more health parameters, wherein the event data includes health para data and is not derived from sensing by the fiber optic shape sensing enabled device;
• associating the event data with the data set of visited positions by recording the event data with the visited positions in a data structure;
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• mapping the event data with the data set of visited positions.