Slicer4:Developers

Slicer 4 is now at the stage where developers can begin to port their modules from Slicer3 to Slicer4. If you are working on extensions, you should continue to use Slicer 3 as your target platform. If you are not sure, ask us.

For now, refer to the 3D Slicer Status Presentation from the June 2010 Project Week for planning and transition information.

Work on 3D Slicer version 4 has begun in June of 2010. It is expected that Slicer4 will be released in 2011. Please see the Slicer4 Description Page for detailed information on the current plans.

• For information about older versions of Slicer, see here.

Introduction

• This page of for scientist who write source code, if you want to use a pre-compiled version of Slicer, please go to the download page.
• Slicer 4 will include a number of fundamental changes to the infrastructure:
  • Qt widgets will replace KWW widgets
  • CMAKE superbuild will replace getbuildtest

Compiling

• how to get the source code
• how to compile Slicer 4 on your computer

Projects

(please add your new project to the top of the table)

Slicer4 Projects	Key People Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
Infrastructure for DCE, Recist, "What changed"	Ron Kikinis
Infrastructure for multi-volumes	Demian Wassermann, Lauren Odonnell, CF Westin
Updating the Wikipedia pages for Slicer	Ann Adams, Ron Kikinis, Steve Pieper
Porting Diffusion from Slicer 3 to 4	Demian Wassermann, Alex Yarmanovich, Steve Pieper
Feature requests for the Slicer 4 download package	David Partyka, Stephen Aylward, Steve Pieper
Porting Volume Rendering from Slicer 3 to 4	Julien Finet, Alex Yarmanovich, Curtis Lisle
CMAKE superbuild	Dave Partyka, Stephen Aylward
Download Data Appearance	Ron Kikinis, Julien Jomier
Slicer 4 Display Module	Wendy Plesniak, Ron Kikinis
Slicer 4 VTK Widgets tuning	Will Schroeder, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
Slicer 4 UI design	Wendy Plesniak,
Slicer 4 SceneViews Module	Daniel Haehn,
EM Segmenter	Kilian Pohl, Dominique Belhachemi
Annotation	Kilian Pohl, Daniel Haehn
Porting Slicer from kww to Qt	Julien Finet, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Steve Pieper, Stephen Aylward

Extensions

Slicer4 Extensions	Key People Bold names are responsible for an aspect of the project.
VMTK	Daniel Haehn
DTI EM Clustering	Mahnaz Maddah, Jim Miller

Quick Links for Developers

This section centrally locates many existing (and developing) wiki pages useful to Slicer4 developers.

Slicer 4 Quick links to the Source code

The Slicer4 git repository:

• Put link here

General Slicer4 Quick Links	Debugging Slicer4 Quick Links
Slicer4 build instructions	Slicer4 Dashboard (After XX XXXX)
Use ViewVC to browse the repository	Slicer3 Dashboard (Before XX XXXX)
Instructions for NA-MIC svn	Slicer Bug Tracker
Doxygen documentation for Slicer4.
The Slicer4 VisualBlog shows screenshots of slicer developments.
Developers should follow the Slicer 4 Coding Style.
QtPort Tutorials

Developers' Mailing List

Discussion of Slicer 3 and Slicer 4 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.