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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 sophistication.  
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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.  
  
 
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Revision as of 18:59, 3 June 2008

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Introduction

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 [1]. Slicer leverages state of the art open-source toolkits for visualization, medical image analysis, software process, and other tools for processing and accessing data (for more information see 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.

Slicer 3.2, 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:

  • Improved Multi-platform support and availability of pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
  • New ways to display, interact and record complex visualizations of cross-sectional and deried data
  • Advanced data fusion and registration capabilities
  • Segmentation tools
  • Support for complex data such as DTI
  • Interfaces to informatics frameworks

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.

Integrated Volume Rendering:
View of the abdominal atlas
Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.
Example of Volume Rendering

Highlights

Slicer in Numbers

The numbers in this table represent the components of the NA-MIC kit. Slicer 3 is based on the NA-MIC kit.
Source: http://www.ohloh.org 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.

Package Lines of code Person years Price tag at 100k per person year
Slicer 587,919 161 $16,068,440
KWW 189,627 49 $ 4,925,590
VTK 1,344,989 385 $38,521,873
ITK 711,474 197 $19,712,495
CMAKE 213,671 56 $ 5,586,895
Total 3,047,680 848 $84,815,293