SlicerSummary

This page provides a summary of Slicer's role in the NA-MIC Toolkit. To learn more about Slicer or to download Slicer, click here to visit the Slicer Website .

Description

The 3D Slicer (or simply Slicer) software was initially developed as a joint effort between the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at the MIT AI Lab. The program has evolved into a national plattform supported by a variety of federal funding sources. This versatile research environment has resulted in a wide array of functionality, supporting a variety of medical imaging projects.

Slicer is a "point and click" end-user application. Slicer is used as a vehicle for delivering algorithms to computer scientists, biomedical researchers and clinical investigators. Slicer is distributed under an open source license without a reciprocity requirement and without restrictions on use. For a sampling of the portfolio of applicatons, please see the Slicer Gallery page.

Slicer is expected to evolve dynamically in architecture and implementation by drawing on the expertise and effort of the wider NA-MIC, NAC, BIRN and NCIGT communities. The NA-MIC software engineering methodology, as applied to the problems which Slicer has historically addressed, is expected to result in a cleaner architecture that is easier for developers to support and extend.

Major funding for Slicer was provided through a variety of federal and private funding sources, including NCRR, NIBIB, Roadmap, NCI, NSF, DOD and others.

Slicer 2 is the released product	Slicer 3 beta was released in January 2007

Role in NAMIC

NA-MIC is focused on developing Slicer, a multi-platform, free open source software (FOSS) for visualization and image computing.

Typical Usage

Slicer is an application for visualization and image computing.

Platforms

VTK runs on most Unix, Linux and Windows platforms. Mac OSX is also supported (Jaguar or later.)

Documentation, Tutorials and Examples

Visit Slicer3 Tutorials to find tutorials for Slicer3.

Downloading Slicer

Visit Slicer.org to download Slicer.

Slicer Mailing lists

• slicer-users@bwh.harvard.edu

Questions about running Slicer can be sent to the Slicer User's Mailing List. Archives of slicer-users and subscription management tools are available at:

http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-users

• slicer-devel@bwh.harvard.edu

Slicer compilation/development questions can be sent to the Slicer Developer's Mailing List. Archives of slicer-devel and subscription management tools are available at:

http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-devel