Slicer3:Developers

Slicer 3 Developer Page

This page contains links to Slicer3 developer resources and events.

Click here for Slicer3 Events

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
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.

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 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. See here for more information.	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

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.
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
Inactive Projects	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

Design Information

• May 23, 2006: Algorithm Core workshop.
• April 3, 2006: Slicer 3 alpha technical powerpoint presentation.
• Discussion page about using Slicer3:Qt.
• Implementation priorities from the slicer3 port are shown in this Status Summary.

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