2012 Summer Project Week:SlicerRT

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  Projects List

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  Architecture overview of SlicerRT

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  Dose Volume Histogram module

Background

SlicerRT (https://www.assembla.com/spaces/slicerrt) is a project for making 3D Slicer a powerful common open-source platform for radiotherapy research. Several tools has been already developed, such as DICOM-RT import, Dose Volume Histogram, and Dose Accumulation. During this project week all existing functionalities will be converted to regular Slicer extensions and some new functionalities will be developed.

Key Investigators

• Queen's University: Andras Lasso, Csaba Pinter
• Toronto UHN: Kevin Wang
• MGH: Greg Sharp

Objective

• Make available all SlicerRT functionalities as regular extensions (requires DCMTK with DCMRT extension)
• Integrate gamma value computation algorithm from the Plastimatch library

Approach, Plan

• Integrate CTK changes into the CTK trunk
• Integrate CTK and Slicer core fixes
• Add extension s4ext files to core, make sure all tests pass

Progress

Detailed plan

• Define operating mechanism for module updates (who builds the extensions? how to ensure extension compatibility? how to download a set of extensions all at once?)
• Make extensions compliant: http://wiki.slicer.org/slicerWiki/index.php/Documentation/4.1/SlicerApplication/ExtensionCatalogPolicies
• Remove obsolete SlicerRT branch from Slicer SVN

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a Slicer loadable module. The source code is available in the following locations:

• Slicer core changes (GIT): https://github.com/SlicerRt/Slicer.git
• CTK changes (GIT): https://github.com/SlicerRt/CTK
• RT modules (SVN): https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/slicerrt/trunk/SlicerRt/src

References

• SlicerRT project wiki
• SparKit project wiki
• DCMTK
• DCMRT, when it will be released
• Plastimatch
• DICOM standard