Stanford 2008 Slicer Workshop

Course Syllabus

This workshop is an introduction to the Slicer3 software platform, part of the National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing (NA-MIC) open-source toolkit. Participants will learn how to use Slicer3 for image analysis and 3D visualization, and how to integrate external programs with the open-source software. The workshop provides a 1/2 day end-user session geared for all levels, followed by a 1/2 day programming session geared for developers.

Course Faculty

• Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
• Steve Pieper, Ph.D., Isomics Inc.
• Kathryn Hayes, M.S.E., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Agenda

• Morning Session - User and Developer Workshop - 9 am - 12 pm
  • 9:00 am - 9:15 am Preliminary session: Software and data installation trouble shooting
  • 9:15 am - 9:45 am Overview of the open-source NA-MIC toolkit
  • 9:45 am - 10:45 am Hands-on Session 1: 3D Data Loading and Visualization
  • 10:45 am - 11:00 am Coffee-break
  • 11:00 am - 11:45 am Hands-on Session 2: Data Saving
  • 11:45 am - 12:15 pm Discussion

• 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

• Afternoon Session - Developer Workshop - 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm

• • 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Introduction to the Execution model in Slicer3
  • 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm : Integrating the NA-MIC kit with an external program (Part 1)
  • 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm : Coffee break
  • 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm : Integrating the NA-MIC kit with an external program (Part 2)
  • 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm : Panel Discussion and Conclusion

Course Logistics

• Date: Wednesday September 3, 2008
• Location: Stanford University Medical Center: Room M112, Alway Building.
• To sign-up for this event, please send an e-mail with the subject line 'Stanford 2008 Workshop' to Sonia Pujol, Ph.D. (spujol at bwh.harvard.edu) with your contact information (Name, Title, Affiliation and Address) and the characteristics of your laptop (OS, RAM, Processor).