Slicer3:Developers

Slicer 3 Overview

• For more details on the slicer architecture see: Architecture Slides.
• Highlights of the new architecture

• GUI anatomy

Information for Developers

This section centrally locates many existing (and developing) wiki pages useful to Slicer3 developers. The content is currently being developed for the January AHM.

• Introduction to Slicer3 (Steve)
  • Getting the software and troubleshooting
  • Status overview and Demo
  • Overall Architecture and Coding Conventions
• Modules
  • Which kind of module (interactive or command line) to add (wjp)
  • Command line modules and how to implement one (Jim and Bill - already on wiki)
  • How to add an interactive module (wjp)
• MRML (Alex)
  • Creating and using new MRML node types (Alex)
  • Keeping references to MRML nodes (Alex)
  • How undo/redo works, and how to enable it in your code (Alex)
• GUI
  • Keeping the GUI stateless (wjp)
  • Adding keyboard shortcuts (wjp)
  • GUI style guidelines for consistent look & feel (wjp)
  • Incorporating your group's logo and attributions (Sebastien, Yumin, Will?)
• Engineering
  • Tips for avoiding memory leaks
    • Current Practice (Steve)
    • Suggested change to SmartPointers (Jim)
  • Generating tests (Kitware or GE?)
• Where to go for help
• Status Review and Plan

Slicer 3 Projects

Updated November 2006 to reflect activities in preparation for January 2007 AHM. Projects should correspond to the outstanding issues listed on the Status Summary. Please refer to the Feature Requests from users when planning your implementations.

If your name is in bold, you are responsible for that aspect of the project

• Architecture/Features (Steve Pieper, Group: Bill Lorensen, Ron Kikinis, Mike Halle, Noby Hata)
• Data Model / libMRML (Alex, Steve)
• Execution Model / Command Line Modules (Jim Miller, Bill Lorensen)
• Interface Design and Usability (Wendy Plesniak, KWWidgets: Sebastien Barre, Yumin Yuan)
  • See Slicer3:EventBindings.
• Transition of Selected Slicer2.x Modules to Slicer3 (Nicole, Katie, Wendy, Mathieu)
  • DTMRI: Raul, LMI
  • Editor: Steve
  • Colors, Fiducials, FreeSurfer, ModelMaker: Nicole
  • IGT, Trackers: Haiying
  • EMSegment Interface: Brad Davis
  • SlicerDaemon Interface (for unu, matlab): Steve Pieper
• Build/Test/Deploy System (Andy, Katie)
• Pipeline Integration (Jags)
• Grid Integration (Jeff Grethe, Neil)
• Slicer3:Performance Analysis (Katie)

Slicer 3 Quick links

The Slicer3 svn repository:

svn co http://www.na-mic.org:8000/svn/Slicer3/trunk Slicer3

(Instructions for NA-MIC svn).

Slicer3 build instructions can be found on the wiki.

Doxygen documentation for Slicer3.

A Slicer3 VisualBlog shows screenshots of slicer developments.

Developers should follow the Slicer 3 Coding Style.

Slicer3 Dashboard

Slicer Bug Tracker

Discussion of slicer3 takes place on the slicer-devel@bwh.harvard.edu list. To join developer's mailing list, send a request to: slicer-devel-request@lists.bwh.harvard.edu with the keyword subscribe as the subject.

Design Information

May 23, 2006: Algorithm Core workshop.

April 3, 2006: Slicer 3 alpha technical powerpoint presentation.

Events

Upcoming

Slicer3.0 Beta by End of November 2006

• Official release at AHM January 2007
  • This will include a draft of the new logo

Migration Tutorials (from Slicer 2.x to 3.0) by March 2007

• First set of Migration tutorials by Jan 1, 2007
• Second set of Migration tutorials by Feb 1, 2007
• Complete by March 2007

Past

April 3, 2006

There was a Slicer3 Alpha1 Design Review meeting.

Definition of Alpha Milestone

Slicer3 Alpha2/Beta1 by End of July 2006

• Initial Testing with Core 3 participation
• Base functionality in place, but still subject to API changes and other improvements.
• Packaged versions not yet available, but testers are able to easily build their own versions.