Documentation/Nightly/Modules/SlicerToKiwiExporter

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Introduction and Acknowledgements

Extension: SlicerToKiwiExporter Acknowledgments: This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Author: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (Kitware) Contributor1: Pat Marion (Kitware) Contributor2: Steve Pieper (Isomics, Inc.) Contributor3: Atsushi Yamada (Shiga University of Medical Science) Contact: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, <email>jchris.fillionr@kitware.com</email>

Kitware, Inc.   Isomics, Inc.   Shiga University of Medical Science

Module Description

The SlicerToKiwiExporter module provides Slicer user with any easy way to export models into a KiwiViewer scene file.

KiwiViewer is a free, open-source visualization app for exploring scientific and medical datasets that runs on Android and iOS mobile devices with multi-touch interaction. KiwiViewer supports a variety of file formats, including obj, stl, ply, and vtk. Datasets may be loaded into KiwiViewer from the SD card, email attachments, or Midas, or DropBox, or downloaded from a URL.

The following tutorials will provide steo-by-step instructions to:

• Export a Slicer MRML scene into KiwiViewer scene file
• Upload the exported file onto a shared data source
• Load the exported file into KiwiViewer

Use Cases

Interactively show an audience models created using slicer on an iPad.

Tutorials

Saving a MRML scene as KiwiViewer scene file

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  Install extension named "SlicerToKiwiExporter". Need help?

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  (1) Open save dialog and (2) select KiwiViewer File (*.kiwi.zip) file format.

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  (3 & 4) Choose destination directory

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  (5) Click on "Save" to export the MRML scene.

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  Open error dialog (View -> Error Log) and check log.

Uploading KiwiViewer Scene file to Midas

1. Create an account on the extension server: http://slicer.kitware.com by clicking on the Register link in the top right corner



This image shows the top portion of http://slicer.kitware.com after it has been expanded by clicking the Register button.

2. Go to NA-MIC community and click on Join community

3. If not already done, send an email on the slicer users list asking to be granted write permission on the KiwiViewer folder.

   To: slicer-user@bwh.harvard.edu
   Subject: Asking permission to write to the KiwiViewer folder
   Hi, 
   
   I am user KiwiView application to [...]
   
   Could you grant user YourUserName write access to the KiwiViewer folder ?
   
   

4. Go to http://slicer.kitware.com, click on Communities (1) and select "NA-MIC" (2)

   

5. Browse, select the destination folder "Kiwiviewer" (3) and click on "Upload here" (4)

   

6. Select one or more files (5) and click "Upload" button (6)

   

7. Upload is complete

   

Loading KiwiViewer Scene file from Midas

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  Tap on "Info" (1) and enter "http://slicer.kitware.com/midas3" for "Midas Host"

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  Tap on "Documents", then tap on "Midas" in the available Network Data Sources

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  Tap on "NA-MIC"

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  Tap on "Public"

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  Tap on "KiwiViewer"

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  Tap on KiwiViewer scene file to download and visualize.

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  Download in progress ...

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  Downloaded file is automatically loaded

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  Tap on "Settings" icon to see data properties

Information for Developers

Source: https://github.com/jcfr/SlicerToKiwiExporter