Slicer3:Developers

Slicer 3 Developer Page

This page contains links to Slicer3 developer resources and events.

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Slicer 3 Architecture Overview

For more details on the slicer architecture see: Architecture Slides (updated April, 2007).

• Highlights of the new architecture
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Quick Links for Developers

This section centrally locates many existing (and developing) wiki pages useful to Slicer3 developers.

Slicer 3 Quick links to the Source code

The Slicer3 svn repository:

svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk Slicer3

General Slicer3 Quick Links	Debugging Slicer3 Quick Links
Instructions for NA-MIC svn	Slicer3 Dashboard (As Of May 2, 2008)
Use ViewVC to browse the repository	Slicer3 Dashboard (Before May 2, 2008)
Slicer3 build instructions	Slicer Bug Tracker
Doxygen documentation for Slicer3.
The Slicer3 VisualBlog shows screenshots of slicer developments.
Developers should follow the Slicer 3 Coding Style.

Developers' Mailing List

Discussion of Slicer3 takes place on the slicer-devel at massmail.spl.harvard.edu list. To join developer's mailing list, send a request to: slicer-devel-request at massmail.spl.harvard.edu with the keyword subscribe as the subject. Or access the slicer-devel archives and web administration interface.

Introduction to Slicer3	Key People
Getting the software and troubleshooting
Overall Architecture and Slicer 3 Coding Style
Contributing codes to Slicer3
Two module types (Command line and Interactive)	Key People
Command line modules and how to implement one	Jim and Bill Intro
MRML Medical Reality Modeling Language (MRML) is a language implemented as a type of XML document, with new tags defined to handle medical image data types such as volumes, models or coordinate transforms. MRML Slides	Key People
Creating and using new MRML node types	Alex
Keeping references to MRML nodes	Alex
How undo/redo works, and how to enable it in your code	Alex
GUI	Key People
Adding keyboard shortcuts	Wendy
GUI style guidelines (undergoing change for move to Qt)	Wendy
User-centered design practice	Wendy
3DSlicer's logo and visual communication guidelines	Wendy
Incorporating your group's logo and attributions	Jim
Some experiments/advanced techniques for developing slicer3 interfaces	Steve
Engineering	Key People
Tips for avoiding memory leaks: Current Practice	Steve
Tips for avoiding memory leaks: Suggested change to SmartPointers	Jim
Generating tests	Bill
Setting up Testing
Build Information
The Launcher
Documenting your module As soon as the wiki page template is finalized, and the infrastructure is added to link to this wiki page from the "Help & Acknowledgment" panel in your module's GUI, we will ask developers to fill out a brief document describing your module and its use. Stay tuned for developments...	Key People
Documenting a module with wink
Integrate Slicer3 into a development environment	Key People
Eclipse	Michael Keilhack
Microsoft Visual Studio 200x

Quick Links to Slicer3 Projects

Projects should correspond to the outstanding issues listed on the Status Summary. Please refer to the Feature Requests from users when planning your implementations.

Slicer3 Projects	Key People Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
Architecture/Features	Steve Pieper, Group: Bill Lorensen, Ron Kikinis, Mike Halle, Noby Hata
Data Model / libMRML	Alex, Steve
Execution Model / Command Line Modules	Jim Miller, Bill Lorensen
Interface Design and Usability	Wendy Plesniak, KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
Transition of Selected Slicer2.x Modules to Slicer3	Nicole, Katie, Wendy, Mathieu
DTMRI	Alex with help from Diffusion Images: Raul, Tractography: Lauren LMI
Editor	Steve
Colors, Fiducials, FreeSurfer, ModelMaker	Nicole
IGT, Trackers	Haiying
EMSegment Interface	Brad Davis
SlicerDaemon Interface (for unu, matlab)	Steve Pieper
Build/Test/Deploy System	Andy, Katie
Loni Pipeline Integration	Jags
Batchmake/GRID Integration	Julien Jomier
Registration Modules	Jim Miller, Steve Pieper
Improvements to the registration framework	Casey Goodlett, Stephen Aylward
Python Integration	Dan Blezek
Grid Integration	Jeff Grethe, Neil
Slicer3:Performance Analysis	Katie
Threading ToolKit	Dan Blezek, James Miller, Stephen Aylward
Volume Rendering	Yanling, Andy
Volume Rendering using the VTK GPU acclerated Ray Caster	Lisa Avila / Sebastien Barre
Volume Rendering With CUDA (NOT Active)	Ben
XNAT Interface	Steve, Wendy, Dan Marcus, Tim Olsen
LDDMM Interface	Steve, Anthony Kolasny
Web Presence	Nicole Aucoin, Zack Galbreath
Loadable Modules	Alex Yarmarkovich, Steve Pieper
Extensions	Steve Peiper
Diffusion Editor	Kerstin
TimeSeries and Multi-Volume Data	Steve Pieper, Daniel Blezek, Dominik Meier, Wendy Plesniak
Remote Data Handling	Steve Pieper, Nicole Aucoin, Wendy Plesniak
Query Atlas	Wendy Plesniak
MistSlicer	Yuichiro Hayashi, Kensaku Mori, Nobuhiko Hata
Radiological review	Jim Miller

Design Information

• May 23, 2006: Algorithm Core workshop.
• April 3, 2006: Slicer 3 alpha technical powerpoint presentation.
• Discussion page about using Slicer3:Qt.

Resources

Several books are available on the core topics related to slicer programming:

• Kitware's books on VTK, ITK, CMake
• the ITK theory book
• Xenios's book on Medical Imaging and VTK - many useful examples in tcl