SlicerSummary

This page provides a summary of Slicer's role in the NA-MIC Toolkit. To learn more about Slicer or to download Slicer, click here to visit the Slicer Website .

Description

The 3D Slicer (or simply Slicer) software was initially developed as a joint effort between the Surgical Planning Lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at the MIT AI Lab. The program has evolved into a national plattform supported by a variety of federal funding sources. This versatile research environment has resulted in a wide array of functionality, supporting a variety of medical imaging projects.

Slicer is a "point and click" end-user application. Slicer is used as a vehicle for delivering algorithms to computer scientists, biomedical researchers and clinical investigators. Slicer is distributed under an open source license without a reciprocity requirement and without restrictions on use. For a sampling of the portfolio of applicatons, please see the [Slicer Gallery] page.

Slicer is expected to evolve dynamically in architecture and implementation by drawing on the expertise and effort of the wider NA-MIC, NAC, BIRN and NCIGT communities. The NA-MIC software engineering methodology, as applied to the problems which Slicer has historically addressed, is expected to result in a cleaner architecture that is easier for developers to support and extend.

Major funding for Slicer was provided through a variety of federal and private funding sources, including NCRR, NIBIB, Roadmap, NCI, NSF, DOD and others.

Slicer 2 is the released product	Slicer 3 beta was released in January 2007

Downloading Slicer

Visit Slicer.org to download Slicer.

Slicer Mailing lists

• slicer-users@bwh.harvard.edu

Questions about running Slicer can be sent to the Slicer User's Mailing List. Archives of slicer-users and subscription management tools are available at:

http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-users

• slicer-devel@bwh.harvard.edu

Slicer compilation/development questions can be sent to the Slicer Developer's Mailing List. Archives of slicer-devel and subscription management tools are available at:

http://massmail.spl.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/slicer-devel