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This is a list of key features in the Slicer software package.  This list is not comprehensive, nor is it associated with the latest nightly build of Slicer; The purpose of this list is to give a new user a general idea of the vast array of features that Slicer supports. To see how these features are rolled up into applications, please visit [[Slicer3.2:Training|this page]] that contains tutorials on how to executive different tasks and/or clinical research applications in Slicer.  To see items that are new or highlights of the latest release of Slicer, please visit [http://www.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Announcements:Slicer3.2 this page].

*Input/Output:
**Image: DICOM, NIfTI, Analyze, Meta, NRRD, MGZ...
**Surface: vtk, vtp, stl, freesurfer, fiber bundle
*Coordinate Systems: All Data is Patient-Referenced
*Visualization: Volume Rendering, Surfaces, Slices Planes, Clipping, Volume Overlays... 
*Filtering: Denoising, Nonlinear/Aniostropic Smoothing, Format Conversion
*Registration: Multimodal (e.g. CT/MR), Rigid, Affine, BSpline.  Apply Transforms to other volumes.
*Segmentation: Manual Editor, Semi-Automated (Region Growing), Statistical Classifiers, Atlas Based
*Diffusion Imaging: DICOM Import, Tensor Tools, Tractography
*Quantification: Volume Measurements, Points, Lines
*Real-time: Networked Trackers and Volume I/O
*Other
**Meshing
**Fiducials
**Batch Processing
**Remote Data I/O
**Extensible in C++/Tcl/Python
**Slicer Daemon