Announcements:Slicer3.6

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Introduction

The community of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 3.6.

• Click here to download different versions of Slicer3 and find pointers to the source code, mailing lists and 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 Slicer3 are not fully tested.
• The Slicer Training page provides a series of courses for learning how to use Slicer3. The portfolio contains self-guided presentation and sample data sets

The main slicer.org pages provide a guided tour to the application, training materials, and the development community. New users should start there because we try to keep the pages organized and up to date.

Slicer Highlights

• Slicer v3.6 - New and Improved Modules
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  The Interactive Editor can be used to create and edit label maps for quantitative analysis and surface model generation (Steve Pieper)

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  Volume Rendering (Yanling Liu, Julien Finet, Lisa Avila)

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  Colors (Nicole Aucoin)

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  Measurements (rulers and angles) (Nicole Aucoin)

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  Fiducials (Nicole Aucoin)

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  EM Segmenter, simple version (Kilian Pohl)

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  Fast Marching segmentation (Andriy Fedorov)

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  Robust Statistical Segmentation (Yi Gao)

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  NEW: Multiresolution Affine registration (Casey Goodlett)

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  Improved: Expert Automated Registration (Casey Goodlett)

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  NEW: Fiducial Registration (Casey Goodlett)

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  NEW: BRAINSFit Registration (Hans Johnson)

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  NEW: BRAINSDemonWarp (Hans Johnson)

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  NEW: BRAINSResample (Hans J. Johnson)

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  NEW: BRAINSROIAuto (Hans J. Johnson)

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  NEW: Plastimatch non-rigid registration (Greg Sharp)

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  PETCTFusion (Wendy Plesniak)

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  4D Image Viewer (Junichi Tokuda)

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  MRIBiasFieldCorrection correction of MRI intensity inhomogeneity i.e. bias field (Sylvain Jaume)

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  N4 Bias Field Correction (Andriy Fedorov)

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  Mesh Contour Segmentation (Peter Karasev)

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  Model Transform (Alex Yarmarkovich)

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  Resample Scalar/Vector/DWI Volume (Francois Budin)

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  Crop Volume (Andriy Fedorov)

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  Virtual Endoscopy (Steve Pieper)

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  ChangeTracker (Andriy Fedorov)

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  OpenIGTLinkIF (Junichi Tokuda)

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  ProstateNav (Andras Lasso, Junichi Tokuda)

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  NeuroNav (Haiying Liu)

Slicer Extensions

• Slicer v3.6 - Extensions
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  The Plastimatch DICOM RT reader allows import and conversion of data in that format. (Greg Sharp)

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  The ABC Segmenter is based on ITK EM technology.

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  Fuzzy segmentation

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  Hammer Registration can be used to build statistical brain atlases

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  Plastimatch non-rigid registration (Greg Sharp)

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  Arctic wizard (Automatic Regional Cortical ThICkness)

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  Lupus white matter lesions segmentation (Jeremy Bockholt, Mark Scully)

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  EM DTI clustering (Mahnaz Maddah)

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  Rician Noise Filter for noise removal in DWI data

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  The FourD Analysis module was designed for time series analysis (Junichi Takuda)

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  Centerline extraction using Voronoi diagrams (Luca Antiga, Daniel Haehn)

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  Label diameter estimation (Andriy Fedorov)

Checklist for the 3.6 release

Other Improvements, Additions & Documentation

• Slicer v3.6 - Extensions
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  New default LUT (Michael Halle)

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  Registration Portal Page: overview of avail. tools & modules (Dominik Meier)

|link=Slicer3:Registration]] Registration Portal Page: overview of avail. tools & modules (Dominik Meier)

Registration Tool Feature Matrix (Dominik Meier)

Resampling Tool Feature Matrix (Dominik Meier)

Slicer Registration Case Library (Dominik Meier)

Registration Case Library: Call for Example Datasets (Dominik Meier)

• Registration Welcome Module
• Segmentation Welcome Module
• Diffusion Welcome Module
• Performance Improvements in all registration modules due to bug fixes and performance enhancements in new ITK release