Documentation/Labs

This is the place where we will keep track of our experiments and projects.

On-going

Roadmap

• Slicer 5

Internals

• NrrdReading_Writing_Optimizations
• OpenGLFilters
• DeprecatedModules extension
• FHS compliant directory structure
• Fiber Tract measurement and visualization
• VTK Widgets improvements
• CLI infrastructure cleanup and refactoring
• Upgrading Compiler Infrastructure
• View Infrastructure Improvements
• CDash Improvements
• SlicerBridge
• Continuous Integration and Nightly packages build infrastructure
• Parameter Serializer support for CLIs
• Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality support
• Infrastucture Status
• Improving Slicer Packages Download experience
• Sequences
• Improving Markups
• Surface Toolbox update
• Sample Data Module Improvements
• BuildSystem: Improve CMake configuration time

Libraries

• Design: Addition of orientation to VTK data structures
• Design: Make VTK strings encoding aware

Python

• Calling Python methods from Cpp
• IPython
• Python conda build

Compilers & IDE

• Modernize to c++11 and beyond

Virtual Machines

• GPU Virtualization

Documentation

• Documentation Improvements (Wiki, website, ...)
• Intermediate documentation for developers

Tutorials

• IPython Slicer Tutorials

Source code management

• Transition to GitHub as authoritative version control system

Extension

• Extensions Server (also described as Extensions Manager or Catalog)
• Extensions Framework Roadmap
• Custom Slicer Generator
• Improving Extensions Metadata
• Brain Connectome Visualization

Functionalities

• Fly-through Navigation
• Automatic Update and Installation Framework
• Application usage analytics
• Plotting 2D Line Segments

Packaging

• Homebrew Cask

Completed

• Developer Projects

Extension

• Easy Extension Contribution - See ExtensionWizard

Internals

• Slicer startup time improvement
• CMake-ified Python - See r21911, r21912, r21913
• Full support for non-linear transforms

Libraries

• Migration to Qt5 and VTK8
• Integration with OpenCV
• ITKv4
• Qt484
• VTK6
• VTK7

Python

• Pip
• Development with Git - See r21863, r21867, r21869, r21879, r21891
• Python observer callbacks

Compilers & IDE

• Ninja
• VS2012
• Support for Numpy 1.7.1

Modules

• Simple Filters
• Editor

Tutorials testing

• 4.3 Release

Debug

• BRAINS and ITKv4 issue

Internals

• Segmentations
• MultiDimensional Data Management
• DICOM Export
• Slice View Annotations
• Subject hierarchy module and plugins
• Internationalization
• Units
• SlicerExecutionModel Parameter Serialization

Abandoned

• SlicerConfig and UseSlicer Tweaks