Documentation/4.8/Announcements

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Summary

What is 3D Slicer

Slicer 4.8 Highlights

Slicer 4.8 Changelog

Citing Slicer

Summary

The community of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 4.8.

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The development of Slicer, including its numerous modules, extensions, datasets, pull requests, patches, issues reports, suggestions, ... is made possible by awesome users, developers, contributors, commercial partners from around the world and also invaluable grants and funding agencies.

For more details, see Acknowledgments page.

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• Slicer 4.8 introduces
  • Close to 1000 feature improvements and bug fixes have resulted in improved performance and stability
  • More than 15 new and improved core modules.

• Click here to download Slicer 4.8 for different platforms and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and the 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 Slicer are not fully tested.
• The Slicer Training page provides a series of tutorials and data sets for training in the use of Slicer.

• slicer.org is the portal to the application, training materials, and the development community.

Slicer 4.8 Highlights

Slicer 4.8 highlights are:

• Simpler Data module integrating the Subject Hierarchy.
• Segmentations module improvements including addition of new effects like Grow from seeds, Fill between slices, Surface cut, Mask Volume, Watershed, Fast marching and Flood Filling.
• Improvements to slice viewers including better crosshair usability and support for slice model projection.
• Support for Volumetric Mesh.
• DICOM support improvements including supports for definition of semantic meanings and faster imports.
• Transforms module improvements including support for interactively updating transform in the 3D view and visualization of displacements of individual points.
• Support for fast and interactive plotting using VTK Charts.
• More than 15 new and improved core modules.
• Dozens of new and improved extensions.

Slicer 4.8 Changelog

See Slicer 4.8 Changelog

What is 3D Slicer

3D Slicer is:

• A software platform for the analysis (including registration and interactive segmentation) and visualization (including volume rendering) of medical images and for research in image guided therapy.
• A free, open source software available on multiple operating systems: Linux, MacOSX and Windows
• Extensible, with powerful plug-in capabilities for adding algorithms and applications.

Features include:

• Multi organ: from head to toe.
• Support for multi-modality imaging including, MRI, CT, US, nuclear medicine, and microscopy.
• Bidirectional interface for devices.

There is no restriction on use, but Slicer is not approved for clinical use and intended for research. Permissions and compliance with applicable rules are the responsibility of the user.

For details on the license see here

Citing Slicer

To acknowledge 3D Slicer as a platform, please cite the Slicer web site (http://www.slicer.org) and the following publication:

Fedorov A., Beichel R., Kalpathy-Cramer J., Finet J., Fillion-Robin J-C., Pujol S., Bauer C., Jennings D., Fennessy F., Sonka M., Buatti J., Aylward S.R., Miller J.V., Pieper S., Kikinis R. 3D Slicer as an Image Computing Platform for the Quantitative Imaging Network. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2012 Nov;30(9):1323-41. PMID: 22770690.