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Goals

The material here provides a guided walk through of the resources available for python scripting in Slicer 4. It is based on what is available in the nightly builds as of project week (June 17, 2013). One goal is to demonstrate the development of a python scripted slicer module. Another goal is to provide "A Guide to Python in Slicer for the Casual Power User" which means that this walkthrough of the features of slicer should give you an idea how to make a custom module that helps organize and automate your processing. This can be useful for your own research or you can create helper modules that simplify the work for users who are exploring an algorithm or working with a large set of studies.

Topics

Creating module from template with ModuleWizard

Configuring slicer to use the module

Basic Development Cycle

Edit / Reload the code

Develop self-tests

Refine functionality

Document

Package as extension

The hard parts

building the GUI

finding the right slicer class/calls to implement what you want

debugging

optimizing performance

Special Topics

The slicer architecture

the qSlicerApplication

the vtkSlicerApplicationLogic

the vtkMRMLScene

slicer.modules

slicer.util

Manipulating the slicer session via python

Working with python modules that are not bundled with slicer's binary distribution

2013 Project Week Breakout Session:Slicer4Python

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