Slicer3

Welcome to the Slicer3 Home Page. Use the Slicer3 navigation menu to find specific information about different aspects of Slicer3.

In a nutshell, Slicer3 is:

• A cross-platform end user application for analyzing and visualizing medical images.
• A collection of Open Source libraries for developing and deploying new image computing technologies.
• Intended to replace the venerable Slicer2 (see information on the transition)
• A powerful new Execution Model has been added to facilitate creation of new modules.

News:

• March 2007
  • New Image Guided Therapy (IGT) functionality for tracking surgical instruments added by developers working at the National Center for IGT.
• February 2007
  • Feb 7-8, 2007, Slicer3 Mini-Retreat, Boston
  • Resulted in the implementation of a Python interface to Slicer3.

• January 2007
  • Slicer3 developers are getting together in Salt Lake City for a "programming half-week" as part of the NA-MIC All-Hands Meeting
  • Lots of new developer documentation added!
  • Slicer3 beta released
  • New bug tracker installed
• December 2006
  • There was a big meltdown of the na-mic.org server in December, and some things were lost including wiki history, slicer3 bug tracker and doxygen, and some of the older download files. Please bear with us as we pick ourselves up and carry on.
• November 2006
  • Slicer3 Alpha builds available for linux (32 and 64 bit) and windows!
• October 2006
  • Slicer3 development version shown at the BIRN All Hands Meeting as the platform for the BIRN Query Atlas Project and overall visualization issue in BIRN. See these slides for more information.
• September 2006:
  • Development meeting at BWH September 19, 20.
• July, 2006:
  • There was active development of Slicer3 at and around the NA-MIC Programming/Project week.
  • New Slicer3 wiki page organization is underway. Please send feedback to the slicer-devel mailing list.