Announcements:Slicer3.2

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Slicer 3.2

Preparations are underway for a major new release Slicer 3.2 of the Slicer software platform. The release is scheduled for Thursday, May 29, 2008.

Highlights:

  • Multi-platform support: pre-compiled binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are available for download
  • New ways to display and interact with cross-sectional data.
  • Scene snapshots allow capture of all visualization parameters of a scene
  • Advanced registration / data fusion capabilities
  • Many more features and improvements
  • The new release contains hundreds of changes to the software and is based on recently released versions of vtk (5.2), itk (3.6), and cmake (2.6).
  • Slicer continues to be a research package and is not intended for clinical use. Testing of functionality is an ongoing activity with high priority. Nevertheless, some features of Slicer3 are not fully tested.
  • Click here to download different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and bug tracker.
Integrated Volume Rendering:
View of the abdominal atlas
Bone and large vessels are volume rendered.
Example of Volume Rendering

New and improved features

  • Affine and b-Spline registration
  • Loadable Modules
  • EM segementer
  • Scenesnapshots