AHM2009:NITRC and Slicer

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Agenda:

• Review of Goals ( NA-MIC Presentation to NITRC AHM June 30, 2008).
• Issues
  • Need to have compile extensions with same configuration as slicer
  • Need to make it easy for users to find and manage extensions
• Current Developments
  • User Experience
    • Module Search Wizard
    • UIDesign Mockups
  • CMake Configurations for Building Outside of Slicer Tree
    • example Slicer3ExampleModules @ NITRC.org
  • Module Discovery Process
    • Command Line Modules
    • Loadable Interactive Modules
    • Scripted Modules
  • Extension Build System
    • .s3ext files in Slicer3/Extensions describe each module
    • example BubbleMaker.s3ext
    • extend.tcl

./Scripts/extend.tcl --verbose --clean

• • • getbuildtest.tcl --extend
    • http://ext.slicer.org/ext
    • lsext.tcl

./Scripts/lsext.tcl -b darwin-x86 -d 2008-12-30 --verbose

• Discussion of TODO Items
  • Module Dependencies
  • Persistence of Module Installations Across Updates (auto-update feature for slicer3)
  • Grouping of Related Modules
  • Test Data for Modules
  • Avoid Restart and/or Save Dialog before restart

References:

• NITRC Collaboration Page on the NA-MIC wiki.

• Ongoing discussions between NA-MIC and NITRC personnel
  • face-to-face meetings at Society for Neuroscience 2007
  • Steve Pieper to serve on NITRC change control board
• Slicer3:Loadable_Modules project to enable NITRC-based plug-ins.
• Slicer page at NITRC
• DTI Rician Noise removal filter, slicer3 plug-in developed at University of Utah
• Image Registration Tool BRAINSfit, slicer3 plug-in developed at University of Iowa
• Stochastic Tractography, slicer3 plug-in developed at MIT