2011 Project Week Breakout Session: Slicer4

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Summer Project Week Breakout Session: Slicer4 Module Usability

9am-11am, Tuesday June 21, 2011, Star room.

Attendees:

All Slicer4 developers.

Reference Material:

• Slicer4

Preliminary Agenda:

• Step by step review of existing slicer4 functionality and user interface with an eye towards creating a consistent and pleasant user experience with a logical grouping of functions to accomplish standard tasks.

• Review of features and next steps with the idea that developers and users can vote on priorities for development effort
  • Remote IO options (save/restore of slicer data and scenes via DICOM, Midas, wiki...)
  • Performance enhancements/bottlenecks
  • Documentation
  • Enhancements to module functionality
    • command line modules (slicer execution model)
    • extensions
    • python scripting
  • Embedding slicer4 packages in standard python interpreter
  • Support for new datatypes?
    • Icon associated with each datatype
    • I/O registration in qSlicer[Core]IOManager
    • Official module for each node type "Edit properties..." (current hack)
  • web/mobile deployment options?
  • other ideas or requests?

General Slicer4 TODO items for discussion among developers

• Porting remaining SWidgets (Crosshairs, Model/Slice Intersections, Reformat Widget...)
• Removing slicer3 legacy code from slicer4 repository
• What modules from the core should become extensions?