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Introduction

Our Philosophy

Slicer Highlights

Slicer Extensions

Other Improvements, Additions & Documentation

Introduction

The community of Slicer developers is proud to announce the release of Slicer 4.1.

Slicer 4.1 includes a major overhaul of the user interface, improved and simplified workflows for major tasks, simplified procedures for developers, and improved Python support.

Click here to download Slicer 4.1 for different platforms 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 Slicer4 are not fully tested.
The Slicer Training page provides a series of courses for learning how to use Slicer4. 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.

Our Philosophy

Slicer is a community platform created for the purpose of subject specific image analysis and visualization.

Multi-modality imaging including, MRI, CT, US, nuclear medicine, and microscopy
Multi organ from head to toe
Bidirectional interface for devices
Expandable and interfaced to multiple toolkits

There is no restriction on use, but permissions and compliance with rules are responsibility of users. For details on the license see here

Slicer Highlights

Slicer 4.1 - New and Improved Modules
New look for the Welcome module and the "Load/Save" toolbar
Step one of the DWI to Full-brain tractography wizard
Improved 2-stage user interface for the Slice Viewer Controllers
Updated Dicom Module
Updated CompareViewers and Viewer Controler Module
MultiVolumeExplorer with support for charting. See here for more information.
Label Statistics with charting and visualization
Updated Icons for the Core Modules
Updated Modules settings panel: Prefer Executable CLI loading to decrease memory consumption, choose what module(s) to skip at startup, customize Favorite modules toolbar...
Added Cache settings panel
Added support to import VTK unstructured grid (convert volumetric to surface poly data)