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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.)
Contact: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, <email>jchris.fillionr@kitware.com</email>

Kitware, Inc.

Isomics, Inc.

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

Install extension named "SlicerToKiwiExporter". Need help?
(1) Open save dialog and (2) select KiwiViewer File (*.kiwi.zip) file format.
(3 & 4) Choose destination directory
(5) Click on "Save" to export the MRML scene.
Open error dialog (View -> Error Log) and check log.

Uploading KiwiViewer Scene file to Midas

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.

Go to NA-MIC community and click on Join community

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 ?

Go to http://slicer.kitware.com, click on Communities (1) and select "NA-MIC" (2)
Browse, select the destination folder "Kiwiviewer" (3) and click on "Upload here" (4)
Select one or more files (5) and click "Upload" button (6)
Upload is complete