Announcements:Slicer3.2
Slicer 3.2
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Slicer 3.2, a major release of the Slicer software platform, is scheduled for release. Release candidates should be available on Monday, June 2nd 2008. The new release contains hundreds of changes to the software. Highlights include:
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. |
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Overview
- Slicer v3.2 - New and Improved Feature Highlights
Complex Visualization Capabilities: Combining cross-sections and 3D surface models tumor, brain morphology, MR angiogram, fMRI and DTI)
Volume Rendering: Fully integrated volume rendering with cropping for easy exploration of volumetric data
Implicit Slice Widget: An interactive tool for specifying oblique views (part of the VTK widget family).
The Lightbox: Functionality for displaying cross-sectional data in columns and rows.
Interactive Editor: This new module allows interactive segmentation with robust 2D and 3D algorithms
IO: Improved IO capabilities include support for DICOM, NRRD, NIFTI, Tiff, JPG, Freesurfer, FITS and a number of other formats
Glyphs on tracts:
New Diffusion Imaging infrastructure includes
dicom import
gradient editor
visualiztion
Remote Data Handling allows uploads and downloads from image informatics frameworks such as BIRN, and XNAT
OpenIGTLink interfaces to devices such as scanners, trackers, and robots
Result of combining affine and b-Spline registration
EM Segmenter: A configurable image segmentation tool that uses intensity distributions along with atlas information
- Loadable Modules
- Scenesnapshots
Slicer in Numbers
The numbers in this table represent the NA-MIC kit, which is the software platform that form the basis of the 3D Slicer software. Source: http://www.ohloh.org, May 30 2008. 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 |
| Total | 2,834,009 | 792 | $79,228,398 |
