Slicer Features

This is a list of key features in the Slicer software package. This list is not comprehensive, nor is it associated with the latest nightly build of Slicer; The purpose of this list is to give a new user a general idea of the vast array of features that Slicer supports.

• Input/Output:
  • Image: DICOM, NIfTI, Analyze, Meta, NRRD, MGZ...
  • Surface: vtk, vtp, stl, freesurfer, fiber bundle
• Coordinate Systems: All Data is Patient-Referenced
• Visualization: Volume Rendering, Surfaces, Slices Planes, Clipping, Volume Overlays...
• Filtering: Denoising, Nonlinear/Aniostropic Smoothing, Format Conversion
• Registration: Multimodal (e.g. CT/MR), Rigid, Affine, BSpline. Apply Transforms to other volumes.
• Segmentation: Manual Editor, Semi-Automated (Region Growing), Statistical Classifiers, Atlas Based
• Diffusion Imaging: DICOM Import, Tensor Tools, Tractography
• Quantification: Volume Measurements, Points, Lines
• Real-time: Networked Trackers and Volume I/O
• Other
  • Meshing
  • Fiducials
  • Batch Processing
  • Remote Data I/O
  • Extensible in C++/Tcl/Python
  • Slicer Daemon