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Major contributors for the Slicer 3.6 release include (in alphabetic order):<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, ITK<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, KWWidgets<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/fillion.html Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]: CTK, Qt<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/finet.html Julien Finet]: Volume rendering, CTK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash, Wiki, Sys Admin<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/goodlett.html Casey Goodlett]: Registration<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/hoffman.html Bill Hoffman]: CMake, CTest, CPack, Software Process<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK, Software Process (Testing)<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: MIDAS, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Principal Investigator, Testing<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/krishnan.html Karthik Krishnan]: 3D Widgets<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/partyka.html Dave Partyka]: Cross-platform build and installation, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~spujol/ Sonia Pujol]: Workshops, Tutorials, Testing<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Francois Budin]: Resampling of scalar images and DTI<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Clement Vachet]: ARCTIC cortical thickness, Shape Analysis module</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcments-3.6-Team&diff=15414Announcments-3.6-Team2010-05-06T14:29:42Z<p>Will: </p>
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Major contributors for the Slicer 3.6 release include (in alphabetic order):<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, ITK<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, KWWidgets<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/fillion.html Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]: CTK, Qt<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/finet.html Julien Finet]: Volume rendering, CTK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash, Wiki, Sys Admin<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/goodlett.html Casey Goodlett]: Registration<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/hoffman.html Bill Hoffman]: CMake, CTest, CPack, Software Process<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: MIDAS, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Principal Investigator, Testing<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/krishnan.html Karthik Krishnan]: 3D Widgets<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/partyka.html Dave Partyka]: Cross-platform build and installation, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~spujol/ Sonia Pujol]: Workshops, Tutorials, Testing<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Francois Budin]: Resampling of scalar images and DTI<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Clement Vachet]: ARCTIC cortical thickness, Shape Analysis module</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcments-3.6-Team&diff=15413Announcments-3.6-Team2010-05-06T14:26:53Z<p>Will: </p>
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Major contributors for the Slicer 3.6 release include (in alphabetic order):<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, ITK<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, KWWidgets<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/finet.html Julien Finet]: Volume rendering<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash, Wiki, Sys Admin<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/goodlett.html Casey Goodlett]: Registration<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/hoffman.html Bill Hoffman]: CMake, Software Process<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: MIDAS, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Principal Investigator, Testing<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/krishnan.html Karthik Krishnan]: 3D Widgets<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/partyka.html Dave Partyka]: Cross-platform build and installation, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~spujol/ Sonia Pujol]: Workshops, Tutorials, Testing<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Francois Budin]: Resampling of scalar images and DTI<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Clement Vachet]: ARCTIC cortical thickness, Shape Analysis module</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcments-3.6-Team&diff=15412Announcments-3.6-Team2010-05-06T14:23:46Z<p>Will: </p>
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Major contributors for the Slicer 3.6 release include (in alphabetic order):<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, ITK<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, KWWidgets<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/finet.html Julien Finet]: Volume rendering<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash, Wiki, Sys Admin<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/goodlett.html Casey Goodlett]: Registration<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: MIDAS<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Principal Investigator, Testing<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/krishnan.html Karthik Krishnan]: 3D Widgets<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/partyka.html Dave Partyka]: Cross-platform build and installation, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~spujol/ Sonia Pujol]: Workshops, Tutorials, Testing<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Francois Budin]: Resampling of scalar images and DTI<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Clement Vachet]: ARCTIC cortical thickness, Shape Analysis module</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcments-3.6-Team&diff=15411Announcments-3.6-Team2010-05-06T14:22:25Z<p>Will: </p>
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Major contributors for the Slicer 3.6 release include (in alphabetic order):<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, ITK<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, KWWidgets<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/goodlett.html Casey Goodlett]: Registration<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/finet.html Julien Finet]: Volume rendering<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash, Wiki, Sys Admin<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: MIDAS<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Principal Investigator, Testing<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/partyka.html Dave Partyka]: Cross-platform build and installation, CDash<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~spujol/ Sonia Pujol]: Workshops, Tutorials, Testing<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Francois Budin]: Resampling of scalar images and DTI<br />
* [http://www.niral.unc.edu/people Clement Vachet]: ARCTIC cortical thickness, Shape Analysis module</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:GPURayCaster&diff=12042Slicer3:GPURayCaster2010-01-25T12:01:11Z<p>Will: /* GPU Ray Caster */</p>
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<div>== GPU Ray Caster ==<br />
<br />
<br />
This project involves moving the GPU Ray Caster from VTKEdge into VTK, then making this volume mapper available from Slicer. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Overview of GPU Ray Casting'''<br />
<br />
VTK supports several volume rendering techniques for both regular, rectilinear grids (vtkImageData), and tetrahedral meshes (represented by vtkUnstructuredGrid). Some of these volume mappers primarily utilize the CPU (relying on the GPU only for the final display of the resulting image), while other mappers make use of the resources available on the GPU such as 2D and 3D texture memory and texture mapping functionality. The new vtkKWEGPURayCastMapper in VTKEdge uses the latest advancements available on recent GPUs including fragment programs with conditional and loop operations, multi-texturing and frame buffer objects in order to deliver significantly improved performance over the CPU-based ray casting, while still maintaining high rendering quality.<br />
<br />
The basic ray casting concept is quite simple. For each pixel in the final image a ray is traced from the camera through the pixel and into the scene. As the ray passes through a volume in the scene the scalar data is sampled along the ray and those samples are processed and combined to form a final RGBA result for the pixel. The implementation of the ray casting algorithm within an object-oriented visualization system, such as VTK, that utilizes object-order rendering (polygonal projection) for other data objects in the scene is a bit more complex, requiring the ray casting process to consider the current state of the frame buffer in order to intermix the volume data with other geometric data in the scene. In our GPU implementation of ray casting, the volume data is stored on the GPU in 3D texture memory. Ray casting is initiated by rendering a polygonal representation of the outer surface of the volume. A fragment program is executed at each pixel to traverse the data and determine a resulting value that is combined with the existing pixel value in the frame buffer computed during the opaque geometry phase of rendering.<br />
<br />
For more detailed information, please see the July 2008 edition of The Source, which can be found here: http://kitware.com/products/archive/kitware_quarterly0708.pdf.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Integration into VTK'''<br />
<br />
The GPU Ray Caster was initially funded by the following SBIR projects:<br />
<br />
"Visualization of Massive Multivariate AMR Data"<br />
National Science Foundation<br />
Contract Number OII-0548729 <br />
<br />
"Rapid, Hardware Accelerated, Large Data Visualization"<br />
Department of Defense / Army Research Laboratory<br />
Contract Number W911NF-06-C-0179<br />
<br />
The output of these projects was a new toolkit under GPL terms called VTKEdge. As part of this project, the GPU Ray Caster will be moved out of the VTKEdge toolkit into the BSD licensed Visualization Toolkit (VTK). In the process, the names of the classes will be changed to follow VTK conventions. <br />
<br />
This relocation is currently in process and is expected to be complete by January 11th. The new classes will be located in the VolumeRendering kit of VTK.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Integration into Slicer'''<br />
<br />
The plan is to review the current Volume Renderer module and work with Yanling Liu <vrnova@gmail.com> and<br />
Alex Yarmarkovich <alexy@bwh.harvard.edu> to integrate the new mappers to the current Volume Rendering GUI, so that they can be selected at run-time.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Timeline'''<br />
<br />
Approximately six to eight weeks after contract signing, i.e., by Valentines Day.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:GPURayCaster&diff=12041Slicer3:GPURayCaster2010-01-25T12:00:13Z<p>Will: /* GPU Ray Caster */</p>
<hr />
<div>== GPU Ray Caster ==<br />
<br />
<br />
This project involves moving the GPU Ray Caster from VTKEdge into VTK, then making this volume mapper available from Slicer. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Overview of GPU Ray Casting'''<br />
<br />
VTK supports several volume rendering techniques for both regular, rectilinear grids (vtkImageData), and tetrahedral meshes (represented by vtkUnstructuredGrid). Some of these volume mappers primarily utilize the CPU (relying on the GPU only for the final display of the resulting image), while other mappers make use of the resources available on the GPU such as 2D and 3D texture memory and texture mapping functionality. The new vtkKWEGPURayCastMapper in VTKEdge uses the latest advancements available on recent GPUs including fragment programs with conditional and loop operations, multi-texturing and frame buffer objects in order to deliver significantly improved performance over the CPU-based ray casting, while still maintaining high rendering quality.<br />
<br />
The basic ray casting concept is quite simple. For each pixel in the final image a ray is traced from the camera through the pixel and into the scene. As the ray passes through a volume in the scene the scalar data is sampled along the ray and those samples are processed and combined to form a final RGBA result for the pixel. The implementation of the ray casting algorithm within an object-oriented visualization system, such as VTK, that utilizes object-order rendering (polygonal projection) for other data objects in the scene is a bit more complex, requiring the ray casting process to consider the current state of the frame buffer in order to intermix the volume data with other geometric data in the scene. In our GPU implementation of ray casting, the volume data is stored on the GPU in 3D texture memory. Ray casting is initiated by rendering a polygonal representation of the outer surface of the volume. A fragment program is executed at each pixel to traverse the data and determine a resulting value that is combined with the existing pixel value in the frame buffer computed during the opaque geometry phase of rendering.<br />
<br />
For more detailed information, please see the July 2008 edition of The Source, which can be found here: http://kitware.com/products/archive/kitware_quarterly0708.pdf.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Integration into VTK'''<br />
<br />
The GPU Ray Caster was initially funded by the following SBIR projects:<br />
<br />
"Visualization of Massive Multivariate AMR Data"<br />
National Science Foundation<br />
Contract Number OII-0548729 <br />
<br />
"Rapid, Hardware Accelerated, Large Data Visualization"<br />
Department of Defense / Army Research Laboratory<br />
Contract Number W911NF-06-C-0179<br />
<br />
The output of these projects was a new toolkit under GPL terms called VTKEdge. As part of this project, the GPU Ray Caster will be moved out of the VTKEdge toolkit into the BSD licensed Visualization Toolkit (VTK). In the process, the names of the classes will be changed to follow VTK conventions. <br />
<br />
This relocation is currently in process and is expected to be complete by January 11th. The new classes will be located in the VolumeRendering kit of VTK.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Integration into Slicer'''<br />
<br />
The plan is to review the current Volume Renderer module and work with Yanling Liu <vrnova@gmail.com> and<br />
Alex Yarmarkovich <alexy@bwh.harvard.edu> to integrate the new mappers to the current Volume Rendering GUI, so that they can be selected at run-time.<br />
<br />
'''Timeline'''<br />
<br />
Approximately six to eight weeks after contract signing, i.e., by Valentines Day.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:GPURayCaster&diff=12040Slicer3:GPURayCaster2010-01-25T11:59:57Z<p>Will: /* GPU Ray Caster */</p>
<hr />
<div>== GPU Ray Caster ==<br />
<br />
<br />
This project involves moving the GPU Ray Caster from VTKEdge into VTK, then making this volume mapper available from Slicer. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''Overview of GPU Ray Casting'''<br />
<br />
VTK supports several volume rendering techniques for both regular, rectilinear grids (vtkImageData), and tetrahedral meshes (represented by vtkUnstructuredGrid). Some of these volume mappers primarily utilize the CPU (relying on the GPU only for the final display of the resulting image), while other mappers make use of the resources available on the GPU such as 2D and 3D texture memory and texture mapping functionality. The new vtkKWEGPURayCastMapper in VTKEdge uses the latest advancements available on recent GPUs including fragment programs with conditional and loop operations, multi-texturing and frame buffer objects in order to deliver significantly improved performance over the CPU-based ray casting, while still maintaining high rendering quality.<br />
<br />
The basic ray casting concept is quite simple. For each pixel in the final image a ray is traced from the camera through the pixel and into the scene. As the ray passes through a volume in the scene the scalar data is sampled along the ray and those samples are processed and combined to form a final RGBA result for the pixel. The implementation of the ray casting algorithm within an object-oriented visualization system, such as VTK, that utilizes object-order rendering (polygonal projection) for other data objects in the scene is a bit more complex, requiring the ray casting process to consider the current state of the frame buffer in order to intermix the volume data with other geometric data in the scene. In our GPU implementation of ray casting, the volume data is stored on the GPU in 3D texture memory. Ray casting is initiated by rendering a polygonal representation of the outer surface of the volume. A fragment program is executed at each pixel to traverse the data and determine a resulting value that is combined with the existing pixel value in the frame buffer computed during the opaque geometry phase of rendering.<br />
<br />
For more detailed information, please see the July 2008 edition of The Source, which can be found here: http://kitware.com/products/archive/kitware_quarterly0708.pdf.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Integration into VTK'''<br />
<br />
The GPU Ray Caster was initially funded by the following SBIR projects:<br />
<br />
"Visualization of Massive Multivariate AMR Data"<br />
National Science Foundation<br />
Contract Number OII-0548729 <br />
<br />
"Rapid, Hardware Accelerated, Large Data Visualization"<br />
Department of Defense / Army Research Laboratory<br />
Contract Number W911NF-06-C-0179<br />
<br />
The output of these projects was a new toolkit under GPL terms called VTKEdge. As part of this project, the GPU Ray Caster will be moved out of the VTKEdge toolkit into the BSD licensed Visualization Toolkit (VTK). In the process, the names of the classes will be changed to follow VTK conventions. <br />
<br />
This relocation is currently in process and is expected to be complete by January 11th. The new classes will be located in the VolumeRendering kit of VTK.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Integration into Slicer'''<br />
<br />
The plan is to review the current Volume Renderer module and work with Yanling Liu <vrnova@gmail.com> and<br />
Alex Yarmarkovich <alexy@bwh.harvard.edu> to integrate the new mappers to the current Volume Rendering GUI, so that they can be selected at run-time.<br />
<br />
'''Timeline'''<br />
<br />
Approximately six-eight weeks after contract signing, i.e., by Valentines Day.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=11011Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T20:36:39Z<p>Will: /* Resources */</p>
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<div>= Goals =<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Refer to [[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 preliminary study]] done by Sebastien Barre for background technical information.<br />
* Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=11010Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T20:36:28Z<p>Will: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Refer to [[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 preliminary study]] done by Sebastien Barre for background technical information.<br />
* Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=11009Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T20:35:49Z<p>Will: /* Resources */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Refer to [[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 preliminary study]] done by Sebastien Barre for background technical information.<br />
* Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
* '''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
* '''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=11008Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T20:35:19Z<p>Will: /* Goals */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Refer to [[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 preliminary study]] done by Sebastien Barre for background technical information.<br />
* Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=11007Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T20:35:08Z<p>Will: /* Goals */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
* Refer to [[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 preliminary study]] done by Sebastien Barre for background technical information.<br />
* Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=11006Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T20:34:48Z<p>Will: /* Goals */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
* Refer to [[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Qt_in_Slicer3 preliminary study]] done by Sebastien Barre for background technical information.<br />
* Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=11005Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:28:47Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far (wait on modules)<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]<br />
* Use standard warning / error dialogues; report to the user in a consistent fashion<br />
* Check-box inversion (on the left versus right)</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=11004Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:28:39Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far (wait on modules)<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]<br />
* Use standard warning / error dialogues; report to the user in a consistent fashion<br />
* Check-box inversion (on the left versus right)<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=11003Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:25:45Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]<br />
* Use standard warning / error dialogues; report to the user in a consistent fashion<br />
* Check-box inversion (on the left versus right)</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=11002Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:24:13Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]<br />
* Use standard warning / error dialogues; report to the user in a consistent fashion<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=11001Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:23:39Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]<br />
* Use standard warning / error dialogues</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=11000Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:22:38Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10999Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:22:27Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
* Discussion about Git / [[http://gitorious.org/ gGittorious]]</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10998Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:15:21Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
* Is it possible to switch GUI panel from left side to right side?<br />
* Groupbox widget collapse button locations (seems to be inconsistent)<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10997Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:13:56Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module frame is noticeable<br />
* Discussed dockable modules (hide the dockable option)<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10996Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:11:07Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10995Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:10:52Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic widgets: grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
** Module<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10994Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:09:24Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
* Basic widgets: grouping widgets (containers that collapse)<br />
** KWFrameWithLabel not prominent enough<br />
**</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10993Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:07:52Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets, necessary before going too far<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10992Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T18:07:19Z<p>Will: /* October 20, 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>===October 20, 2009===<br />
Attendees: J2, JC, Will, Steve Pieper, Nicole, Wendy, Seb<br />
<br />
* J2 is adding basic widgets<br />
* Compilation on Mac (not quite yet, VTK CVS head needed)<br />
*</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=10989Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T12:42:01Z<p>Will: /* Team */</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Sebastien Barre aka Seb (Kitware)<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Documents&diff=10988Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/Documents2009-10-20T12:40:15Z<p>Will: Created page with 'The following are documents related to this project.'</p>
<hr />
<div>The following are documents related to this project.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes&diff=10987Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer/MeetingNotes2009-10-20T12:39:34Z<p>Will: Created page with '===October 20, 2009==='</p>
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<div>===October 20, 2009===</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=10986Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T12:38:45Z<p>Will: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Resources =<br />
The following lists notes, presentations and pointers to source code and other materials relevant to this effort.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:MeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]]'''<br />
A running summary of meeting notes.<br />
<br />
'''[[Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer:Documents|Presentation Materials]]'''<br />
A collection of presentation materials such as PowerPoint, PDF and other documents.</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer&diff=10985Slicer3:Developers:Projects:QtSlicer2009-10-20T12:33:16Z<p>Will: Created page with '= Goals = Refer to the http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages for background and official reporting of the project. The basic goal…'</p>
<hr />
<div>= Goals =<br />
Refer to the [[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Projects:ARRA:SlicerUI Slicer-Qt ARRA pages]] for background and official reporting of the project.<br />
<br />
The basic goal of the project is to replace the current KWWidgets-based GUI with Qt. It is anticipated that the following benefits will result:<br />
<br />
# Better support for Qt versus KWWidgets. This includes:<br />
## Community support (more developers and users)<br />
## Programming reference and training materials<br />
## Design tools (e.g., Qt Designer)<br />
# Qt has advanced programming constructs (e.g., signals and slots)<br />
# Qt has advanced capabilities (e.g., charting, widgets, SQL interface, etc.)<br />
# Increased (Slicer) application modularity<br />
<br />
= Team =<br />
* Julien Finet aka J2 (Kitware)<br />
* Jean-Christophe Fillon-Robin aka JC (Kitware)<br />
* Stephen Aylward aka Muscles (Kitware)<br />
* Will Schroeder aka Elvis (Kitware)<br />
* Steve Pieper (Isomics)<br />
* Wendy Plesniak (Harvard)<br />
<br />
= Presentation Materials =</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5998Announcements:Slicer3.22008-08-12T20:05:28Z<p>Will: /* Slicer in Numbers */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
'''Links to Latest Slicer 3.2 Binaries'''<br />
<br />
64-bit Linux:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-linux-x86_64.tar.gz<br />
<br />
32-bit Linux:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-linux-x86.tar.gz<br />
<br />
Darwin PPC:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-darwin-ppc.tar.gz<br />
<br />
Darwin x86:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-darwin-x86.tar.gz<br />
<br />
Windows:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-win32.tar.gz<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The [[Announcments-3.2-Team|community]] of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and derived data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
Click here to [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Click [[Announcements:Slicer3.2:FAQ|here]] for a FAQ. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #eeeeee" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Scenesnapshot.png| [[Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation#Scene_Snapshots|Scenesnapshots]] allow to capture and recover all parameters of a scene.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:DTI glyphs.png|Glyphs on corticospinal tract:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes, dicom import, gradient editor, visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation#View-.3ECache_.26_RemoteIO_Manager:|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit IGT Toolkit] to enable research in Image Guided Therapies<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration: Robust and fast (parallelized) registration algorithms.<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
Image:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process Quality Software Process] The NA-MIC Kit employs a test-driven software development process. Slicer3 also has a [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process#The_Slicer_Build_Process new build process].<br />
Image:LoadableModule.png|[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]] allows developers to provide modules to users outside of the build process, resulting in a smaller installed footprint and greater flexibility to end-users.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org<br> <small> Captured on July 31 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the [http://www.ohloh.org Ohloh] website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="1"<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Package''' <br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Lines of code'''<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Person years'''<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Price tag at 100k per person year'''<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Approx. # Developers'''<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |604,093 <br />
| align="right" |165 <br />
| align="right" |$16,533,269<br />
| align="right" | 55<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,635<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,809<br />
| align="right" |2<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,385,777<br />
| align="right" |398 <br />
| align="right" |$39,750,538<br />
| align="right" | 85<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |727,275 <br />
| align="right" |202 <br />
| align="right" |$20,173,333<br />
| align="right" | 80<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |217,077 <br />
| align="right" |57 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,680,460<br />
| align="right" |25<br />
|-<br />
| TEEM<br />
| align="right" |114,065 <br />
| align="right" |29 <br />
| align="right" |$ 2,890,946<br />
| align="right" |<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |3,237,922<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |900<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |$ 89,954,355<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |245<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5997Announcements:Slicer3.22008-08-12T19:54:32Z<p>Will: /* Slicer in Numbers */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
<br />
'''Links to Latest Slicer 3.2 Binaries'''<br />
<br />
64-bit Linux:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-linux-x86_64.tar.gz<br />
<br />
32-bit Linux:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-linux-x86.tar.gz<br />
<br />
Darwin PPC:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-darwin-ppc.tar.gz<br />
<br />
Darwin x86:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-darwin-x86.tar.gz<br />
<br />
Windows:<br />
http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/Release/darwin-ppc/Slicer3-3.2.2008-08-08-win32.tar.gz<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The [[Announcments-3.2-Team|community]] of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and derived data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
Click here to [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Click [[Announcements:Slicer3.2:FAQ|here]] for a FAQ. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #eeeeee" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Scenesnapshot.png| [[Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation#Scene_Snapshots|Scenesnapshots]] allow to capture and recover all parameters of a scene.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:DTI glyphs.png|Glyphs on corticospinal tract:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes, dicom import, gradient editor, visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Modules:MainApplicationGUI-Documentation#View-.3ECache_.26_RemoteIO_Manager:|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit IGT Toolkit] to enable research in Image Guided Therapies<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration: Robust and fast (parallelized) registration algorithms.<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
Image:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process Quality Software Process] The NA-MIC Kit employs a test-driven software development process. Slicer3 also has a [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process#The_Slicer_Build_Process new build process].<br />
Image:LoadableModule.png|[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]] allows developers to provide modules to users outside of the build process, resulting in a smaller installed footprint and greater flexibility to end-users.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org<br> <small> Captured on July 31 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the [http://www.ohloh.org Ohloh] website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="1"<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Package''' <br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Lines of code'''<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Person years'''<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Price tag at 100k per person year'''<br />
| style="width:20%"|'''Approx. # Developers'''<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |604,093 <br />
| align="right" |165 <br />
| align="right" |$16,533,269<br />
| align="right" |<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,635<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,809<br />
| align="right" |2<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,385,777<br />
| align="right" |398 <br />
| align="right" |$39,750,538<br />
| align="right" | 42<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |727,275 <br />
| align="right" |202 <br />
| align="right" |$20,173,333<br />
| align="right" |<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |217,077 <br />
| align="right" |57 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,680,460<br />
| align="right" |4<br />
|-<br />
| TEEM<br />
| align="right" |114,065 <br />
| align="right" |29 <br />
| align="right" |$ 2,890,946<br />
| align="right" |<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |3,237,922<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |900<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |$ 89,954,355<br />
| style="background:#b3b3e7; color:black" align="right" |100<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcments-3.2-Team&diff=5188Announcments-3.2-Team2008-06-16T10:53:17Z<p>Will: </p>
<hr />
<div>Back to the [[Announcements:Slicer3.2|Slicer 3.2 announcement]]<br />
<br />
Development of Slicer 3.2 has been supported through volunteer work and through a number of funding mechanisms and sources. Please see the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Acknowledgments Slicer acknowledgments page].<br />
<br />
Major contributors for the Slicer 3.2 release include:<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Overall leadership, testing<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kerstin Kerstin Kessel]: Diffusion Editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~freudling Andreas Freudling]: Volume Rendering Module<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, KWWidgets, cross-platform build and installation process.<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, IGSTK, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/davis.html Brad Davis]: EM segmenter<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/hoffman.html Bill Hoffman]: CMake, CPack, CTest<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: CDash, BatchMake<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* Terry Lorber: Loadable Modules</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcments-3.2-Team&diff=5187Announcments-3.2-Team2008-06-16T10:50:26Z<p>Will: </p>
<hr />
<div>Back to the [[Announcements:Slicer3.2|Slicer 3.2 announcement]]<br />
<br />
Development of Slicer 3.2 has been supported through volunteer work and through a number of funding mechanisms and sources. Please see the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Acknowledgments Slicer acknowledgments page].<br />
<br />
Major contributors for the Slicer 3.2 release include:<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kikinis Ron Kikinis]: Overall leadership, testing<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~pieper Steve Pieper]: Chief architect, editor<br />
* [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu/~westin Carl-Fredrik Westin]: Diffusion MRI overview<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~alexy Alex Yarmarkovich]: MRML, DTI modules, software development<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~hayes Kathryn Hayes]: Release engineering, software development, quality assurance<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/wjp Wendy Plesniak]: GUI, Informatics<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~kerstin Kerstin Kessel]: Diffusion Editor<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/~freudling Andreas Freudling]: Volume Rendering Module<br />
* [http://www.kitware.com/company/team/barre.html Sébastien Barré]: GUI, cross-platform build and installation process.<br />
* [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/pages/People/nicole Nicole Aucoin]: Software development, Fiducials, Informatics<br />
* [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/User:Millerjv Jim Miller]: CLI, Registration, Lightbox<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/aylward.html Stephen Aylward]: Registration, IGSTK, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/davis.html Brad Davis]: EM segmenter<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/galbreath.html Zack Galbreath]: CDash<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/hoffman.html Bill Hoffman]: CMake, CPack, CTest<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/ibanez.html Luis Ibanez]: Registration, Segmentation, ITK<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/jomier.html Julien Jomier]: CDash, BatchMake<br />
* [http://kitware.com/company/team/schroeder.html Will Schroeder]: VTK, 3D widgets<br />
* Terry Lorber: Loadable Modules</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5087Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-04T11:39:23Z<p>Will: /* Highlights */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The [[Announcments-3.2-Team|community]] of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
Image:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process Quality Software Process] The NA-MIC Kit employs a test-driven software development process. Slicer3 also has a [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process#The_Slicer_Build_Process new build process].<br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5080Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-04T10:53:39Z<p>Will: /* Highlights */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, [http://www.na-mic.org NA-MIC], a NIH [http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ncbc/ National Center of Biomedical Computing], is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
Image:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process Quality Software Process] The NA-MIC Kit employs a test-driven software development process. <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5079Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-04T10:52:53Z<p>Will: /* Highlights */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, [http://www.na-mic.org NA-MIC], a NIH [http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ncbc/ National Center of Biomedical Computing], is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
Image:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png|[[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process|Quality Software Process]] The NA-MIC Kit employs a test-driven software development process. <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5078Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-04T10:50:38Z<p>Will: /* Highlights */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, [http://www.na-mic.org NA-MIC], a NIH [http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ncbc/ National Center of Biomedical Computing], is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
Image:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png|[[NAMIC_Wiki:Software_Process|Quality Software Process]] The NA-MIC Kit employs a test-driven software development process. <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=File:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png&diff=5077File:CMakeLogoMediumResolution.png2008-06-04T10:41:55Z<p>Will: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5076Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:47:29Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, [http://www.na-mic.org NA-MIC], a NIH [http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ncbc/ National Center of Biomedical Computing], is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_in_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5075Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:38:47Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, [http://www.na-mic.org NA-MIC], a NIH [http://www.bisti.nih.gov/ncbc/ National Center of Biomedical Computing], is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5074Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:38:09Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, [http://www.na-mic.org NA-MIC], a NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing, is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5073Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:34:19Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, NA-MIC, a NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing, is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big> is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5072Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:33:08Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, NA-MIC, a NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing, is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big>, is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5071Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:32:05Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, NA-MIC, a NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing, is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big>, is a general purpose biomedical computing application with extensive built-in visualization and analysis capabilities, accessible through an easy to use graphical interface. For advanced users, Slicer may be extended at run-time with user-defined plug-in modules. Release candidates for this application will be available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved Multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5070Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T20:26:44Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, NA-MIC, a NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing, is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see the description of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big>, is a newest version of this software application with release candidates available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved Multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Willhttps://www.slicer.org/w/index.php?title=Announcements:Slicer3.2&diff=5069Announcements:Slicer3.22008-06-03T18:59:14Z<p>Will: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>=Introduction=<br />
The National Alliance of Medical Image Computing, NA-MIC, a NIH National Center of Biomedical Computing, is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.2. This effort is the culmination of hundreds of person years and tens of millions of dollars of effort [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2#Slicer_In_Numbers]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for [http://www.vtk.org visualization], [http://www.itk.org medical image analysis], [http://www.cmake.org software process], and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC Kit]). Slicer offers these capabilities as part of the open-source framework known as the NA-MIC Kit, which facilitates on-going research in biomedical computing, supports commercialization through NA-MIC Kit components, and provides a spectrum of capabilities suitable for researchers with varying levels of computer skills. <br />
<br />
{| border="00" cell padding="5" cellspacing="0"<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="2"| <br />
<big> '''Slicer 3.2'''</big>, is a newest version of this software application with release candidates available the first week of June 2008. This new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:<br />
<br />
* Improved Multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux<br />
* New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data<br />
* Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities<br />
* Segmentation tools<br />
* Support for complex data such as DTI<br />
* Interfaces to informatics frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://www.slicer.org/pages/Downloads Click here to download] different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker. Please note that Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority, however, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.<br />
<br />
| style="background: #C3D1C3" align="center"| [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Integrated Volume Rendering]]: <br>View of the [http://www.slicer.org/pages/Special:PubDB_View?dspaceid=1266 abdominal atlas]<br>Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.<br />
|-<br />
| style="background: #ebeced"|[[Image:VolRend2.png|center|350px|Example of Volume Rendering]] <br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Highlights=<br />
<gallery caption="Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights" widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="4"><br />
Image:ComplexVis.png|Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)<br />
Image:VolRend.png|Volume Rendering: [[Modules:VolumeRendering-Documentation|Fully integrated volume rendering]] with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data<br />
Image:ImplicitPlane.png|Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the [http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_Widget_Examples VTK widget family]).<br />
Image:LightBox.png|[[Slicer3:Tools_for_Radiologists|The Lightbox]]: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.<br />
Image:Editor-v3-2.png|[[Modules:Editor-Documentation|Interactive Editor:]] This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms<br />
Image:IO.png|IO: [[Documentation|Improved IO capabilities]] include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats<br />
Image:Line-glyph-tracts.jpg|Glyphs on tracts:<br>[[Slicer3:DTMRI|New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure]] includes<br>dicom import<br>gradient editor<br>visualiztion<br />
Image:DataLoadingStartPlan.png|[[Slicer3:Remote_Data_Handling|Remote Data Handling]] allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT<br />
Image:Slicer_IGTL_PartialImage.png|[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/OpenIGTLink OpenIGTLink] interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots<br />
Image:DataFusion.png|Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration<br />
Image:EMSVisualizeTutorialResultsData.png|[[Modules:EM-Segmenter-Documentation|EM Segmenter:]] A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information <br />
</gallery><br />
*[[Slicer3:Loadable_Modules|Loadable Modules]]<br />
*Scenesnapshots<br />
=Slicer in Numbers=<br />
The numbers in this table represent the components of the [http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NA-MIC-Kit NA-MIC kit]. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.<br />
<BR>Source: http://www.ohloh.org <small> Captured on May 30 2008. The numbers in the column entitled "lines of code" are hard numbers. The other two columns are estimates based on some assumptions. Please see the Ohloh website for an explanation of how the numbers were computed.</small><br />
{|border="1" cellpadding="2"<br />
| style="width:25%"|Package <br />
| style="width:25%"|Lines of code<br />
| style="width:25%"|Person years<br />
| style="width:25%"|Price tag at 100k per person year<br />
|-<br />
| Slicer<br />
| align="right" |587,919 <br />
| align="right" |161 <br />
| align="right" |$16,068,440<br />
|-<br />
| KWW<br />
| align="right" |189,627<br />
| align="right" |49<br />
| align="right" |$ 4,925,590<br />
|-<br />
| VTK<br />
| align="right" |1,344,989<br />
| align="right" |385 <br />
| align="right" |$38,521,873<br />
|-<br />
| ITK<br />
| align="right" |711,474 <br />
| align="right" |197 <br />
| align="right" |$19,712,495<br />
|-<br />
| CMAKE<br />
| align="right" |213,671 <br />
| align="right" |56 <br />
| align="right" |$ 5,586,895<br />
|-<br />
|style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" |Total<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |3,047,680<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |848<br />
| style="background:#8EDEB5; color:black" align="right" |$84,815,293<br />
|}</div>Will