Slicer3 Status Update

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Slicer3 Status Update
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Overview

• Where do we want to go?
• Where have we been?
• Where are we?
• Whats our plan?
• Whats underway?

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Where do we want to go?

• June 9 830 500, Satellite Event to the
  Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2007
  (Chicago)
• Diffusion MRI Neuroanatomy, MR Physics, Clinical
  Applications, Mathematics, Processing and
  Visualization
• Hands On Exercises with 3D Slicer 2.6
• Outcome
• Most Attendees Stayed Late for QA, Extra
  Demonstrations
• 100 reported they would recommend the workshop
  to others
• 50 are planning to apply the tools and
  information they learned to their own work
• We want to migrate to these events to Slicer3
• New Algorithms
• Cleaner Design

50 registered from 9 countries USA, New Zealand,
Canada, Netherlands, England, Germany, Korea,
Czech Republic Belgium 13 states within the
US Georgia, Utah, New York, Wisconsin, Hawaii,
California, Oregon, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Indiana Michigan 40 different
laboratories including 2 NIH institutes Fields
of expertise representative of the NAMIC
collaboration- basic and clinical neurosciences,
physics, image processing and computer science
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What other goals?

• Make the NA-MIC Kit indispensable for Medical
  Image researchers (e.g. DBP Users)
• Install on your new computer like cygwin or
  firefox
• Powerful, Productive Platform for Developers
• Reliable, Usable, Documented

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What is Slicer3?

• Total Rework of 3D Slicer
• At least 80 of code rewritten
• Draws on Distributed Developer Community
• Kitware, Inc., GE Research, Isomics, Inc., BWH,
  UCLA, UCSD, UIowa, MIT, GaTech, UNC, U Utah, MGH,
  UCI, Harvard, WashU, JHU
• NAC, NCIGT, NA-MIC, mBIRN, fBIRN

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Where have we been?

• First slicer3 discussions were held here 2 years
  ago
• June 28, 2005
• SVN Revision 1 16 months ago
• Jan 26, 2006
• 3672 commits as of June 24, 2007
• About a dozen slicer3 1-2 day retreats
• At SPL, MIT, Kitware

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Where are we?

• Development ecosystem
• repository, dashboard, mailing lists, bug
  tracker, wiki
• Slicer3 Betas
• Base GUI, Slice/Model Interaction, Scene
  Load/Save, Volumes, Models, Transforms
• Basic Set of Modules for Registration, Filtering,
  Editor, Model Building
• Application Modules
• EMSegmenter, Diffusion Processing, Image Guided
  Therapy, Meshing, Microscopy

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Whats the plan?

• Working with DBPs to Apply Slicer3
• Training Core Creating First Tutorials
• Slicer3 Release Schedule
• To be determined at this meeting
• NA-MIC Renewal Needs
• Application Publications with New Algorithms
  Implemented in NA-MIC Kit

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Whats Underway? Lots!

• Algorithm Interfaces
• Expanded Execution Model with MRML Scene I/O
• Integrated scipy and matplotlib
• SlicerDaemon Scalar/Vector/Tensor interface to
  MATLAB
• Internal Modules for dMRI
• MRML
• Diffusion Volumes, Fiber Bundles, Model
  Hierarchies, Scene Snapshots and Clips,
  Performance Optimization
• GUI
• Style Guidelines, Cine/FilmSheet Slice Displays,
  Icons, Module Interfaces, File Browser, Editor
• Large Scale Computing
• BatchMake, BIRN XNAT, QDEC Statistics
• Application Areas
• Neuro Segmentation, Lesion Analysis, Diffusion
  Imaging, Vascular Simulation, Prostate
  Interventions, Robotics, Neurosurgery, Astronomy,
  Microscopy, Radiology Review, Joint Biomechanics,
  Radiation Treatment Planning