Documentation/4.8/Announcements

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Summary

Highlights

Changelog

What is 3D Slicer

Citing Slicer

Summary

The community of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 4.8 is now available for download.

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The development of 3D Slicer—including its numerous modules, extensions, datasets, pull requests, patches, issues reports, suggestions—is made possible by users, developers, contributors and commercial partners around the world. This development is funded by various grants and agencies.

For more details, please see the 3D Slicer Acknowledgments page.

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Slicer 4.8:

• introduces close to 1,000 feature enhancements and bug fixes for better performance and stability;
• includes more than 15 new-and-improved core modules and dozens of updated extensions.

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The Slicer Training page provides a series of tutorials and data sets for training in the use of Slicer.

The slicer.org site is the portal to the application documentation, training materials, and the development community.

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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 Slicer are not fully tested.

Slicer 4.8 Highlights

Slicer 4.8 highlights are:

• Simpler Data module integrating the Subject Hierarchy.
• Segmentations module improvements including addition of new effects like Grow from seeds, Fill between slices, Surface cut, Mask Volume, Watershed, Fast marching and Flood Filling.
• Improvements to slice viewers including better crosshair usability and support for slice model projection.
• Support for Volumetric Mesh.
• DICOM support improvements including supports for definition of semantic meanings and faster imports.
• Transforms module improvements including support for interactively updating transform in the 3D view and visualization of displacements of individual points.
• Support for fast and interactive plotting using VTK Charts.
• More than 15 new and improved core modules.
• Dozens of new and improved extensions.
• Transition from mailing list to Slicer discourse forum.

Slicer 4.8 Changelog

See Slicer 4.8 Changelog

What is 3D Slicer

3D Slicer is:

• A software platform for the analysis (including registration and interactive segmentation) and visualization (including volume rendering) of medical images and for research in image guided therapy.
• A free, open source software available on multiple operating systems: Linux, MacOSX and Windows
• Extensible, with powerful plug-in capabilities for adding algorithms and applications.

Features include:

• Multi organ: from head to toe.
• Support for multi-modality imaging including, MRI, CT, US, nuclear medicine, and microscopy.
• Bidirectional interface for devices.

There is no restriction on use, but Slicer is not approved for clinical use and intended for research. Permissions and compliance with applicable rules are the responsibility of the user.

For details on the license see here

Citing Slicer

To acknowledge 3D Slicer as a platform, please cite the Slicer web site (http://www.slicer.org) and the following publication:

Fedorov A., Beichel R., Kalpathy-Cramer J., Finet J., Fillion-Robin J-C., Pujol S., Bauer C., Jennings D., Fennessy F., Sonka M., Buatti J., Aylward S.R., Miller J.V., Pieper S., Kikinis R. 3D Slicer as an Image Computing Platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2012 Nov;30(9):1323-41. PMID: 22770690.