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= Slicer 3 Developer Page =
 
= Slicer 3 Developer Page =
 
[[Image:3DSlicerLogo-H-Color-212x121.png|right]]
 
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This page contains links to Slicer3 developer resources and events.
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*This page contains links to Slicer3 developer resources and events.
 
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*For information about other versions of Slicer see [[Developers|here]]
Click here for <big><big>'''[[Slicer3:Events|Slicer3 Events]]'''</big></big>
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*Click here for <big>'''[[Slicer3:Events|Slicer3 Events]]'''</big>
 
 
== Resources ==
 
 
 
Several books are available on the core topics related to slicer programming:
 
 
 
* [http://kitware.com/products/books.html Kitware's books on VTK, ITK, CMake]
 
* [http://www.akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=2175 the ITK theory book]
 
* [http://bioimagesuite.org/vtkbook5/index.html Xenios's book on Medical Imaging and VTK - many useful examples in tcl]
 
  
 
== Slicer 3 Architecture Overview ==
 
== Slicer 3 Architecture Overview ==
 
For more details on the slicer architecture see: [[media:Slicer 3-beta-2007-04-16.ppt | Architecture Slides]] (updated April, 2007).
 
For more details on the slicer architecture see: [[media:Slicer 3-beta-2007-04-16.ppt | Architecture Slides]] (updated April, 2007).
  
<gallery caption="Highlights of the new architecture" widths="200px"  perrow="2">
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Image:Slicer3-Architecture.jpg
 
Image:Slicer3-Architecture.jpg
 
Image:Slicer3-Architecture-MRML.jpg
 
Image:Slicer3-Architecture-MRML.jpg
Image:Slicer3-Architecture-Layers.jpg
 
 
Image:ExecutionModelPlugins.png
 
Image:ExecutionModelPlugins.png
 
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== Quick Links for Developers ==
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= Quick Links for Developers =
This section centrally locates many existing (and developing) wiki pages useful to Slicer3 developers. The content developed for the January 2007 AHM.
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This section centrally locates many existing (and developing) wiki pages useful to Slicer3 developers.
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== Slicer 3 Quick links to the Source code ==
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The Slicer3 svn repository:
  
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svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk Slicer3
  
 
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|style="background:#ddf" width="60%"|'''Introduction to Slicer3'''
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|style="background:#ddf" width="60%"|'''General Slicer3 Quick Links'''
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
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|style="background:#ddf" width="40%"|'''Debugging Slicer3 Quick Links'''
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||[[Slicer3:Build_Instructions|Slicer3 build instructions]]
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||[http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Slicer3 Slicer3 Dashboard (After May 2, 2008)]
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||Use [http://viewvc.slicer.org ViewVC to browse the repository]
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer3/Dashboard Slicer3 Dashboard (Before May 2, 2008)]
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Engineering:SandBox Instructions for NA-MIC svn]
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||[http://na-mic.org/Mantis/main_page.php Slicer Bug Tracker]
 
|-
 
|-
||[[Media:SlicerHistoricalTimeline.ppt | Slicer3 Historical Timeline]]
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Documentation/Slicer3-doc/html/ Doxygen documentation for Slicer3].
 
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||
 
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||[[Slicer3:Status_Summary | Status overview]] and [http://slicerl.bwh.harvard.edu/tmp/slicer3-PreAHMBeta%20Demo/slicer3-PreAHMBeta.htm Demo]
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||The [[Slicer3:VisualBlog|Slicer3 VisualBlog]] shows screenshots of slicer developments.
 
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||[[Media:GUIMap.png|Schematic of application interface & functionality]]
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||Developers should follow the [[Slicer3:Style|Slicer 3 Coding Style]].
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==Developers' Mailing List ==
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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 [http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-devel slicer-devel archives and web administration interface].
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== Developer Documentation ==
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The following links provide more detail on internal aspects of the code.  If you need more information, please follow up with email to the listed developers or the developer mailing list.
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||[[Media:SliceGUI.png|Schematic of slice GUI]]
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|style="background:#ddf" width="60%"|'''Introduction to Slicer3'''
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|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
 
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|-
 
||[[Slicer3:Build_Instructions | Getting the software and troubleshooting]]
 
||[[Slicer3:Build_Instructions | Getting the software and troubleshooting]]
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|style="background:#ddf"|'''Two module types (Command line and Interactive)'''
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|style="background:#ddf"|'''Three module types (Command line, Loadable, Scriptable)'''
 
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
 
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
 
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||[[Slicer3:Execution_Model_Documentation | Command line modules and how to implement one]]
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||[[Media:Integrating with Slicer3.ppt | Integrating with the 3D Slicer]] || Jim and Steve
||Jim and Bill [[media:Slicer3-ExecutionModelJune2006.ppt| Intro]]
 
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:How_to_implement_an_Interactive_Module_GUI | How to implement an interactive module]]
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||[[Slicer3:Execution_Model_Documentation | Command line modules and how to implement one]] and [[media:Slicer3Plugins.ppt|Tutorial]]
||Wendy
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||Jim
 
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|-
 
|style="background:#ddf"|'''MRML'''<br/>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. [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/images/e/e3/Slicer3_MRML.ppt MRML Slides]
 
|style="background:#ddf"|'''MRML'''<br/>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. [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/images/e/e3/Slicer3_MRML.ppt MRML Slides]
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|style="background:#ddf"|'''GUI'''
 
|style="background:#ddf"|'''GUI'''
 
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
 
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
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||[[Slicer3:StatelessGUI | Keeping the GUI stateless]]
 
||Wendy
 
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:EventBindings | Adding keyboard shortcuts]]
 
||[[Slicer3:EventBindings | Adding keyboard shortcuts]]
 
||Wendy
 
||Wendy
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:Human_Interface_and_Style_Guide_for_Developers | GUI style guidelines]]
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||[[Slicer3:Human_Interface_and_Style_Guide_for_Developers | GUI style guidelines (undergoing change for move to Qt)]]
 
||Wendy
 
||Wendy
 
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|style="background:#ddf"|'''Documenting your module'''<br/>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...
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|style="background:#ddf"|'''Documenting your module'''<br/>Infrastructure has been added to link to wiki pages from the "Help & Acknowledgment" panel in your module's GUI. We ask developers to fill out a brief document describing your module and its use. [[Documentation-3.5#Requirements_for_Modules|See here for more information.]]
 
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
 
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|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3::Eclipse | Eclipse]]
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||[[Slicer3::Eclipse | Original Eclipse]]
 
||Michael Keilhack
 
||Michael Keilhack
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||[[Slicer3::New Eclipse Instructions | Revised Eclipse Instructions]]
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||Curtis Lisle
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||[[Slicer3::Debugging with Eclipse Instructions | Debugging Slicer with Eclipse Instructions]]
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||Curtis Lisle
 
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|-
 
||[[Slicer3::MSVS200X | Microsoft Visual Studio 200x]]
 
||[[Slicer3::MSVS200X | Microsoft Visual Studio 200x]]
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== Quick Links to Slicer3 Projects ==
 
== Quick Links to Slicer3 Projects ==
Projects should correspond to the outstanding issues listed on the '''[[Slicer3:Status_Summary|Status Summary]]'''. Please refer to the '''[[Slicer3:FeatureRequests|Feature Requests]]''' from users when planning your implementations.
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Pending feature requests are [http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/search.php?project_id=1&severity_id=10&sticky_issues=on&sortby=last_updated&dir=DESC&hide_status_id=90 stored in the slicer bug tracker with severity setting of 'feature']. Please also refer to the '''[[Slicer3:FeatureRequests|Feature Requests]]''' from users when planning your implementations.  
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Many Slicer related projects are worked on during the '''[http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Engineering:Programming_Events NA-MIC Project Events]''', please check there for recent updates.
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|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''<br/>Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
 
|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|'''Key People'''<br/>Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
 
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||[[Slicer3:Architecture/Features|Architecture/Features]]
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||[[Slicer3:LUTs_and_Ontologies|Lookup tables and Ontologies]]
||'''Steve Pieper''', Group: Bill Lorensen, Ron Kikinis, Mike Halle, Noby Hata
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||'''Michael Halle'''
 
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||[[Slicer3:Data_Model|Data Model / libMRML]]
 
||[[Slicer3:Data_Model|Data Model / libMRML]]
||'''Alex''', Steve
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||'''Alex Yarmarkovich''', Steve Pieper
 
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||[[Slicer3:Execution_Model|Execution Model / Command Line Modules]]
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||[[Slicer3:Execution_Model_Documentation|Execution Model / Command Line Modules]]
 
||'''Jim Miller''', Bill Lorensen
 
||'''Jim Miller''', Bill Lorensen
 
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||[[Slicer3:Interface_Design|Interface Design and Usability ]]
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||[[Slicer3:UIDesign|User Interface Design]]
||'''Wendy Plesniak''', KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
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||'''Wendy Plesniak''', Qt: Julien Finet, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin. KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
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||[[Slicer3:Transition_of_Slicer2.x_Modules|Transition of Selected Slicer2.x Modules to Slicer3]]
 
||'''Nicole''', Katie, Wendy, Mathieu
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
||[[Slicer3:DTMRI|DTMRI]]
 
||[[Slicer3:DTMRI|DTMRI]]
||'''Alex''' with help from Diffusion Images:  '''Raul''', Tractography: '''Lauren''' [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu LMI]
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||'''Alex Yarmarkovich''' with help from Diffusion Images:  '''Raul San Jose Estepar''', Tractography: '''Lauren O'Donnell''' [http://lmi.bwh.harvard.edu LMI]
 
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|-
 
||[[Slicer3:Editor|Editor]]
 
||[[Slicer3:Editor|Editor]]
||'''Steve'''
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||'''Steve Pieper'''
 
|-
 
|-
||[[Slicer3:ColorsFiducialsFreesurferModelmaker|Colors, Fiducials, FreeSurfer, ModelMaker]]
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit Image Guided Therapy]
||'''Nicole'''
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||'''Haiying Liu'''
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||[[Slicer3:Slicer_Daemon|SlicerDaemon Interface (for unu, matlab)]]
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||'''Steve Pieper'''
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||[[Slicer3:Batchmake_Integration|Batchmake/GRID Integration]]
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||'''Julien Jomier''', Stephen Aylward
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:_Image_Guided_Therapy_%28IGT%29|IGT, Trackers]]
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||[[Slicer3:Registration|Registration Modules]]
||'''Haiying'''
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||'''Domink Meier'''
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:EM|EMSegment Interface]]
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||[[Slicer3:Python|Python Integration]]
||'''Brad Davis'''
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||'''Dan Blezek''', Steve Pieper
 
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||[[Slicer3:Slicer_Daemon|SlicerDaemon Interface (for unu, matlab)]]
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||[[Slicer3:GPURayCaster | Volume Rendering using the VTK GPU acclerated Ray Caster]]
||'''Steve Pieper'''
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||'''Lisa Avila / Sebastien Barre'''
 
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||[[Slicer3:Build/Test/Deploy|Build/Test/Deploy System]]
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||[[Slicer3:Loadable Modules |Loadable Modules]]
||'''Andy''', Katie
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||'''Alex Yarmarkovich''', Steve Pieper, Terry Lorber
 
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||[[Slicer3:Pipeline_Integration|Loni Pipeline Integration]]
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||[[Slicer3:Extensions |Extensions]]
||'''Jags'''
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||'''Steve Pieper''', Terry Lorber
 
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||[[Slicer3:Batchmake_Integration|Batchmake/GRID Integration]]
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|style="background:#ddf" width="60%"|'''Project Snapshots'''
||'''Julien Jomier'''
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|bgcolor="#ddf" valign="top"|This is list of projects which are not active at this time, or the linked pages show a snapshot of the project at a certain time.
 
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||[[Slicer3:Registration|Registration Modules]]
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||[[Slicer3:Architecture/Features|Architecture/Features]]
||'''Jim Miller''', Steve Pieper
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||'''Steve Pieper''', Group: Bill Lorensen, Ron Kikinis, Mike Halle, Noby Hata
 
|-
 
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/ITK_Registration_Optimization Improvements to the registration framework]
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||[[Slicer3:Execution_Model|Execution Model / Command Line Modules]]
||'''Casey Goodlett''', Stephen Aylward
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||'''Jim Miller''', Bill Lorensen
 
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||[[Slicer3:Python|Python Integration]]
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||[[Slicer3:Interface_Design|Interface Design and Usability ]]
||'''Dan Blezek'''
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||'''Wendy Plesniak''', KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:Grid_Interface|Grid Integration]]
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||[[Slicer3:ColorsFiducialsFreesurferModelmaker|Colors, Fiducials, FreeSurfer, ModelMaker]]
||'''Jeff Grethe''', Neil
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||'''Nicole Aucoin'''
 
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||[[Slicer3:Performance_Analysis|Slicer3:Performance Analysis]]
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||[[Slicer3:_Image_Guided_Therapy_%28IGT%29|IGT, Trackers]]
||'''Katie'''
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||'''Haiying Liu'''
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:ThreadingToolKit|Threading ToolKit]]
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||[[EMSegmenter-Overview|EMSegment Interface]]
||'''Dan Blezek, James Miller, Stephen Aylward'''
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||'''Kilian Pohl'''
 
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||[[Slicer3:Volume Rendering |Volume Rendering]]
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||[[Slicer3:Build/Test/Deploy|Build/Test/Deploy System]]
||'''Yanling, Andy'''
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||'''Katie Hayes'''
 
|-
 
|-
||[[Slicer3:GPURayCaster | Volume Rendering using the VTK GPU acclerated Ray Caster]]
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||[[Slicer3:Grid_Interface|Grid Interface]]
||'''Lisa Avila / Sebastien Barre'''
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||'''Jeff Grethe''', Marco Ruiz
 
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|-
||[[Slicer3:Volume Rendering With Cuda|Volume Rendering With CUDA (NOT Active)]]
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||[[Slicer3:Volume Rendering |Volume Rendering]]
||'''Ben'''
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||'''Yanling Liu'''
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:XNAT |XNAT Interface]]
 
||[[Slicer3:XNAT |XNAT Interface]]
 
||'''Steve''', Wendy, Dan Marcus, Tim Olsen
 
||'''Steve''', Wendy, Dan Marcus, Tim Olsen
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||[[Slicer3:LDDMM |LDDMM Interface]]
 
||'''Steve''', Anthony Kolasny
 
 
|-
 
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||[[Slicer3:Web Presence |Web Presence]]
 
||[[Slicer3:Web Presence |Web Presence]]
 
||'''Nicole Aucoin''', Zack Galbreath
 
||'''Nicole Aucoin''', Zack Galbreath
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||[[Slicer3:Loadable Modules |Loadable Modules]]
 
||'''Alex Yarmarkovich''', Steve Pieper
 
|-
 
||[[Slicer3:Extensions |Extensions]]
 
||Steve Peiper
 
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||[http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Modules:Volumes:Diffusion_Editor-Documentation Diffusion Editor]
 
||'''Kerstin'''
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
||[[Slicer3:TimeSeries and Multi-Volume Data | TimeSeries and Multi-Volume Data]]
 
||[[Slicer3:TimeSeries and Multi-Volume Data | TimeSeries and Multi-Volume Data]]
||Steve Pieper, Daniel Blezek, Dominik Meier, Wendy Plesniak
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||Junichi Tokuda, Steve Pieper, Daniel Blezek, Dominik Meier, Wendy Plesniak
 
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||[[Slicer3:Remote Data Handling | Remote Data Handling]]
 
||[[Slicer3:Remote Data Handling | Remote Data Handling]]
||Steve Pieper, Nicole Aucoin, Wendy Plesniak
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||'''Steve Pieper, Nicole Aucoin, Wendy Plesniak'''
 
|-
 
|-
 
||[[Slicer3:Module:QueryAtlas |Query Atlas]]
 
||[[Slicer3:Module:QueryAtlas |Query Atlas]]
 
||'''Wendy Plesniak'''
 
||'''Wendy Plesniak'''
|-
 
||[[Slicer3:MistSlicer | MistSlicer]]
 
||'''Yuichiro Hayashi''', Kensaku Mori, Nobuhiko Hata
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
||[[Slicer3:RadiologicalReview | Radiological review]]
 
||[[Slicer3:RadiologicalReview | Radiological review]]
 
||'''Jim Miller'''
 
||'''Jim Miller'''
|}
 
 
== Slicer 3 Quick links to the Source code ==
 
The Slicer3 svn repository:
 
 
svn co http://svn.slicer.org/Slicer3/trunk Slicer3
 
 
{|width="800px" border="1"
 
 
|-
 
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|style="background:#ddf" width="60%"|'''General Slicer3 Quick Links'''
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||[[Slicer3:Transition_of_Slicer2.x_Modules|Transition of Selected Slicer2.x Modules to Slicer3]]
|style="background:#ddf" width="40%"|'''Debugging Slicer3 Quick Links'''
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||'''Nicole Aucoin''', Katie Hayes, Wendy Plesniak, Mathieu Malaterre
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|-
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||[[Modules:Volumes:Diffusion_Editor-Documentation-3.6|Diffusion Editor]]
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||'''Kerstin'''
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||[[Slicer3:MistSlicer | MistSlicer]]
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||'''Yuichiro Hayashi''', Kensaku Mori, Nobuhiko Hata
 
|-
 
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Engineering:SandBox Instructions for NA-MIC svn]
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||[[Slicer3:LDDMM |LDDMM Interface]]
||[http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Slicer3 Slicer3 Dashboard (As Of May 2, 2008)]
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||'''Steve''', Anthony Kolasny
 
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|-
||Use [http://viewvc.slicer.org ViewVC to browse the repository]
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||[[Slicer3:Volume Rendering With Cuda|Volume Rendering With CUDA (NOT Active)]]
||[http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer3/Dashboard Slicer3 Dashboard (Before May 2, 2008)]
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||'''Ben'''
 
|-
 
|-
||[[Slicer3:Build_Instructions|Slicer3 build instructions]]
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||[[Slicer3:Pipeline_Integration|Loni Pipeline Integration]]
||[http://na-mic.org/Mantis/main_page.php Slicer Bug Tracker]
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||'''Jags'''
 
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||[http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Documentation/Slicer3-doc/html/ Doxygen documentation for Slicer3].
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||[[Slicer3:Performance_Analysis|Slicer3:Performance Analysis]]
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||'''Katie Hayes'''
 
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||The [[Slicer3:VisualBlog|Slicer3 VisualBlog]] shows screenshots of slicer developments.
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||[[Slicer3:ThreadingToolKit|Threading ToolKit]]
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||'''Dan Blezek, James Miller, Stephen Aylward'''
 
|-
 
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||Developers should follow the [[Slicer3:Style|Slicer 3 Coding Style]].
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||[[Slicer3:BrainlabModule|Brainlab Integration]]
|
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||'''Haiying Liu, Noby Hata, Ron Kikinis'''
 
|}
 
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==== ====
 
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 [http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-devel slicer-devel archives and web administration interface].
 
  
 
== Design Information ==
 
== Design Information ==
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*April 3, 2006: [[Media:Slicer_3-alpha-2006-04-03.ppt| Slicer 3 alpha]] technical powerpoint presentation.
 
*April 3, 2006: [[Media:Slicer_3-alpha-2006-04-03.ppt| Slicer 3 alpha]] technical powerpoint presentation.
 
*Discussion page about using [[Qt in Slicer3|Slicer3:Qt]].
 
*Discussion page about using [[Qt in Slicer3|Slicer3:Qt]].
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*Implementation priorities from the slicer3 port are shown in this '''[[Slicer3:Status_Summary|Status Summary]]'''.
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== Resources ==
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Several books are available on the core topics related to slicer programming:
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* [http://kitware.com/products/books.html Kitware's books on VTK, ITK, CMake]
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* [http://www.akpeters.com/product.asp?ProdCode=2175 the ITK theory book]
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* [http://bioimagesuite.org/vtkbook5/index.html Xenios's book on Medical Imaging and VTK - many useful examples in tcl]

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Slicer 3 Developer Page

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  • 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).

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
Slicer3 build instructions Slicer3 Dashboard (After May 2, 2008)
Use ViewVC to browse the repository Slicer3 Dashboard (Before May 2, 2008)
Instructions for NA-MIC svn 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.

Developer Documentation

The following links provide more detail on internal aspects of the code. If you need more information, please follow up with email to the listed developers or the developer mailing list.

Introduction to Slicer3 Key People
Getting the software and troubleshooting
Overall Architecture and Slicer 3 Coding Style
Contributing codes to Slicer3
Three module types (Command line, Loadable, Scriptable) Key People
Integrating with the 3D Slicer Jim and Steve
Command line modules and how to implement one and Tutorial Jim
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
Infrastructure has been added to link to wiki pages from the "Help & Acknowledgment" panel in your module's GUI. We ask developers to fill out a brief document describing your module and its use. See here for more information.
Key People
Documenting a module with wink
Integrate Slicer3 into a development environment Key People
Original Eclipse Michael Keilhack
Revised Eclipse Instructions Curtis Lisle
Debugging Slicer with Eclipse Instructions Curtis Lisle
Microsoft Visual Studio 200x


Quick Links to Slicer3 Projects

Pending feature requests are stored in the slicer bug tracker with severity setting of 'feature'. Please also refer to the Feature Requests from users when planning your implementations.

Many Slicer related projects are worked on during the NA-MIC Project Events, please check there for recent updates.


Slicer3 Projects Key People
Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
Lookup tables and Ontologies Michael Halle
Data Model / libMRML Alex Yarmarkovich, Steve Pieper
Execution Model / Command Line Modules Jim Miller, Bill Lorensen
User Interface Design Wendy Plesniak, Qt: Julien Finet, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin. KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
DTMRI Alex Yarmarkovich with help from Diffusion Images: Raul San Jose Estepar, Tractography: Lauren O'Donnell LMI
Editor Steve Pieper
Image Guided Therapy Haiying Liu
SlicerDaemon Interface (for unu, matlab) Steve Pieper
Batchmake/GRID Integration Julien Jomier, Stephen Aylward
Registration Modules Domink Meier
Python Integration Dan Blezek, Steve Pieper
Volume Rendering using the VTK GPU acclerated Ray Caster Lisa Avila / Sebastien Barre
Loadable Modules Alex Yarmarkovich, Steve Pieper, Terry Lorber
Extensions Steve Pieper, Terry Lorber
Project Snapshots This is list of projects which are not active at this time, or the linked pages show a snapshot of the project at a certain time.
Architecture/Features Steve Pieper, Group: Bill Lorensen, Ron Kikinis, Mike Halle, Noby Hata
Execution Model / Command Line Modules Jim Miller, Bill Lorensen
Interface Design and Usability Wendy Plesniak, KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan
Colors, Fiducials, FreeSurfer, ModelMaker Nicole Aucoin
IGT, Trackers Haiying Liu
EMSegment Interface Kilian Pohl
Build/Test/Deploy System Katie Hayes
Grid Interface Jeff Grethe, Marco Ruiz
Volume Rendering Yanling Liu
XNAT Interface Steve, Wendy, Dan Marcus, Tim Olsen
Web Presence Nicole Aucoin, Zack Galbreath
TimeSeries and Multi-Volume Data Junichi Tokuda, Steve Pieper, Daniel Blezek, Dominik Meier, Wendy Plesniak
Remote Data Handling Steve Pieper, Nicole Aucoin, Wendy Plesniak
Query Atlas Wendy Plesniak
Radiological review Jim Miller
Transition of Selected Slicer2.x Modules to Slicer3 Nicole Aucoin, Katie Hayes, Wendy Plesniak, Mathieu Malaterre
Diffusion Editor Kerstin
MistSlicer Yuichiro Hayashi, Kensaku Mori, Nobuhiko Hata
LDDMM Interface Steve, Anthony Kolasny
Volume Rendering With CUDA (NOT Active) Ben
Loni Pipeline Integration Jags
Slicer3:Performance Analysis Katie Hayes
Threading ToolKit Dan Blezek, James Miller, Stephen Aylward
Brainlab Integration Haiying Liu, Noby Hata, Ron Kikinis

Design Information

Resources

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