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Slicer 4.0.0

Date: 11/27/2011
Target for RSNA 2011
New features
- Application
  - Slice controller popups
  - Compare Views
  - Reformat widget
  - Slice intersection
  - Crosshair widget
  - Volume Rendering presets
  - Colors/Modules search
- Modules
  - Facelift of Volume Rendering, Editor, Models, Tractography Display, Sceneviews...
  - Data probe (instead of corner annotations)
  - Crop
  - EMSegment
  - Brainsfit
- Under the hood
  - Speed improvement
  - 99% tcl/tk free
  - Online documentation (wiki)
Missing Features
- Extensions (Plastimatch...)
- DICOM module
- DICOM to DWI module
- More annotations types (angle, bspline...)
- Status report
Known issues
- No VTK GPU Raycast VR on Mac
- views looses settings on layout change
- Broken ROI annotations: http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=1628
- Doesn't start on some Linux machines (e.g. Ubuntu 11.10): delete the file libqsvg.so in the directory Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/lib/QtPlugins/imageformats)

Note: gamma for developers.
Slicer 4.0.0 gamma-RC1 (06/13/2011)
Slicer 4.0.0 gamma-RC2 (06/20/2011)
- Known issues
  - Crash when loading DTI images.
New features
- Modules
  - Support for "Command Line Executables"
  - Volume Rendering(New)
    - Dual View
  - Sample Data(New)
  - Volumes
    - DWI/DTI support.
    - Control over the slider range when editing Window/Level.
  - Data
    - Option menu (Insert transform, Edit properties, Delete...) on right click.
  - Annotations
    - ROI annotations (New)
- Application
  - Magnify view
  - Extension Manager
  - Dynamic Layouts
  - Error&Warnings Logger
- Misc.
  - Automatic package submission system
  - CMake configuration template for building extensions
  - Mac Bundle
  - Python testing
What is missing?
- Speed improvement
- Status report
- "Compare Views"
- UI for DICOM loading
- Reformat widget
- Crosshair widget
- Slice intersections
- Volume Rendering presets
- More annotation types
- ...

Slicer 4.0.0 beta-2 (01/08/2011)
- Known issues:
  - Can't load volumes (.nrrd) using "Add Data" dialog
Slicer 4.0.0 beta-1 (12/18/2010)
- Known issues:
  - Can't load models (.vtk) using "Add Data" dialog
Note: beta for developers.
New features
- Modules
  - Annotation
  - Color
  - Editor
  - Endoscopy
  - Models
  - Scene views
  - Progress for CLI modules
- Extensions Manager
- Manipulate 3D View
- Support for Python modules
- Corner annotations
- Application Settings
- LabelStatistics
What is missing?
- Layouts (Compare, Tabbed, Dual 3D view...)
- UI for DICOM loading
- Volume Rendering
- Cache&Remote I/O Manager (Download Sample Data)
- Logger
- Reformat widget
- DWI support in the Volumes module

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 ** views looses settings on layout change
 ** Broken ROI annotations: http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=1628
-** Doesn't start on some Linux machines (e.g. Ubuntu 11.10): delete the file libsvg.so in the directory Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/lib/Slicer-4.0/imageformats)
+** Doesn't start on some Linux machines (e.g. Ubuntu 11.10): delete the file libqsvg.so in the directory Slicer-4.0.0-linux-amd64/lib/QtPlugins/imageformats)
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