NCIGT Retreat 2012 Discussion

Slicer 4.1 release candidate was presented to the [1] 2012 scientific retreat on April 5. About a dozen IGT Slicer developers discussed ideas and priorities for Slicer 4 in IGT with Steve Pieper and Nicole Aucoin. The meeting included a brief presentation of highlights and plans discussion summarized below.

• Several groups were interested in the DICOM listener for autorouting intraoperative images directly to slicer. [2]
• Improved fiducial support was requested:
  • better performance with tens or more fiducials
  • fixes to csv file interface (Nicole to work with Jay on details) [3] [4]
• Support for MultiVolume datasets with fewer than six timepoints [5]
• Usability improvements to the slice controller [6]
• Request for fiducial hotkey [7]
• Request to easily move through loaded volumes, perhaps with Tab key [8]
• Option to avoid reset of slice views when volume is loaded [9]
• Several IGT developers use windows and mentioned that they are having trouble with the windows compilation of slicer 4.1
• Dr. Alex Golby requested an OR compatible user interface: [10]