Slicer-IGT

Disclaimer

Slicer and Slicer for IGT have been designed for research purposes only and have not been reviewed or approved by the Food and Drug Administration or by any other agency. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT CLINICAL APPLICATIONS ARE NEITHER RECOMMENDED NOR ADVISED. Read the [License for Slicer] for details. One may use Slicer for Image Guided Therapy (IGT) in clinical studies at his/her own risk after approval from his/her institution through its own IRB certification procedure. The example clinical cases listed in this website are either from mock-up or clinical validation study approved by IRB that weighed the merit against the risk of using Slicer for IGT not recommended for clinical use. For more information about the human clinical trials, visit NIH-NCI web site [1].

Overview

Slicer for Image Guided Therapy

This is a project page for an open-source surgical navigation software for Image Guided Therapy. The project try to extend 3D Slicer, freely available, open-source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data, and apply the extended software for Image Guided Therapy.

• Free open-source software for Image Guided Therapy research
• Provides software foudation (GUI, Image I/O, 3D viewer, tracker support), and you can focus on developping your original clinical application
• Available for Windows, Mac, Linux
• Access to state-of-art scientific medical image processing algorithm as well as most of commercial tracking device
• Affiliated scientific workshops and seminars to discuss and exchange ideas
• Increasing visibility of your research in IGT community using popular software platform
• Available for commercialization by concealing proprietary codes*

(*) Acknowledgment needed

Screenshots

[To be filled by H Liu]

Downloads

Slicer 2.6 

Stable version actively tested in MR-guided therapies. Not actively updated.

Windows binary

Linux binary

Source code (SVN trunk)

Tutorial

Slicer for IGT 2.6 Tutorial (Power Point) 

This presentation guides you to download and install Slicer version 2.6 for IGT, and perform mock-up navigation surgery using a plastic skull.

Users/Collaborators/Sponsors

List of collaborators

List of sponsors

Users publications

This page lists papers using Slicer for Image Guided Therapy.

Call for snapshots

We are soliciting a snapshot of Slicer used in IGT. Please send a message to Nobuhiko Hata (hata {at-mark} bwh.harvard.edu} with the project description. Your contact info and snapshots will be listed in this page. Thank you!

Events

• June 25-29, 2007, Summer Programming/Project Week at MIT

• Jan 10-11-12, 2007: AHM 2007, EAB, Workshop, Hands-on Activities (programming, algorithm brainstorming, clinical applications)

• October 19-20 2006, NCIGT and NA-MIC Workshop on Open System Architectures for Image-Guided Therapy

• MICCAI_2006 October 1, 2006: Open Source Workshop at MICCAI 2006, Copenhagen

• September 19-20, 2006 Slicer 3 Update Meeting in Boston

• September 14-15, 2006: We have been invited to participate in NIH Workshop on Standards in Change Measurement. This workshop will potentially set the stage for additional workshops that focus on Image Guided Interventions and Open Source standards.

• Sept-06-2006, 2006 IBMISPS conference: talk by R. Kikinis about FOSS

• June 26-30, 2006, Summer Programming/Project Week at MIT

• January 8-13, 2006: The Second All-Hands-Meeting and Programming Event in Salt Lake City, Utah

Contact Information

Nobuhiko Hata, the lead developer for "Slicer for IGT" development team at National Center for Image Guided Therapy for more information. Email: hata {at-mark} bwh.harvard.edu

People

Sandy Wells (U41 Computational Core PI)

Nobuhiko Hata, PhD (Slicer IGT Project Director)

Simon DiMaio, PhD (Real-time image control)

Alex Golby, MD (Neurosurgery)

Haiying Liu, MS (Senior Programmer)

Eigil Samset, PhD (tracker I/O)

Clare Tempany, MD (Prostate Therapy)

Links

Internal Developers page (authorization required)