2013 Project Week Breakout Session:Slicer4Python

Goals

Demonstrate the development of a python scripted slicer module:

• Creating module from template with ModuleWizard
• Configuring slicer to use the module
• Basic Development Cycle
  • Edit / Reload the code
  • Develop self-tests
  • Refine functionality
  • Document
• Package as extension
• The hard parts
  • building the GUI
  • finding the right slicer class/calls to implement what you want
  • debugging
  • optimizing performance
• Special Topics
  • The slicer architecture
    • the qSlicerApplication
    • the vtkSlicerApplicationLogic
    • the vtkMRMLScene
    • slicer.modules
    • slicer.util
  • Manipulating the slicer session via python
  • Working with python modules that are not bundled with slicer's binary distribution