Slicer3:UIDesign:WorkingProblems:SlicerUsabilityInTractography:Organization

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User Experience

DTI analysis involves many of Slicer's provisions, but the overall experience can be like picking through a haystack to find the needles you need. How might we make this easier?

workflow-support

Since this kind of analysis is something we want to support, we might support flexible wizards that walk people through a standard but flexible set of steps, and make recommendations about which algorithms to try, as part of the analysis. This mechanism would streamline workflow and maybe provide a guided tour through appropriate Slicer features.

better organized module list

The main pull-down menu exposes a pile of functionality that's loosely structured. A few interesting comments to illustrate the point:

• Under "Segmentation's" cascade menu are a list of tools for automated segmentation, but the Editor module for manual segmentation isn't listed.
• Under "Registration" there are many tools available, but it may not be clear to a user which of these options is appropriate for their datasets.
• As a more general point, module names need to communicate underlying algorithms for some users, and need to communicate what they're best used for to other users.