2011 Summer Project Week Breakout Session Slicer4 Annotation

Summer Project Week Breakout Session: Slicer4 Annotation Module

11am-12pm, Tuesday June 21, 2011, Star room.

Attendees:

• Nicole Aucoin, BWH
• Daniel Haehn, UPenn

Reference Material:

• ARRA miAnnotation project page

Agenda:

• Demo of current state of the Annotation Module
• Summary of usability issues to be deal with from the Slicer4 usability review
• Developer specific issues:
  • Integrating Slicer specific VTK widget changes back to VTK
  • Widget interactions
  • Slicer3 .fcsv file backward compatibility: conversion script? storage node update?
  • Caption widget debugging
  • scene view restore losing Slicer3 fiducials
• User interactions
  • placing and moving annotations
  • editing properties - confusing
  • selection/highlighting
  • passing groups of annotations to CLI's (add default hierarchy nodes to mimic lists)
  • associating with volumes
  • applying changes to sets of annotations

Meeting Notes:

• picking
  • place the fiducial on the plane at the center of rotation
  • get rid of the manipulate icons in the mouse modes tool bar
• pause not working with the mouse modes (ruler), neither is cancel
• pushing changes to VTK
  • check in to Slicer/VTK github