2010 NAMIC Project week: Viewer Manager Factory

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  Projects List

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  Scatter plot of the original FA data through the genu of the corpus callosum of a normal brain.

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  Regression of FA data; solid line represents the mean and dotted lines the standard deviation.

Key Investigators

• Alex Yarmarkovich, Kilian, Steve, Nicole, JC, Julien

Objective

Create a pluggable structure for managing MRML<-->VTK Rendering and Widget interactions in the context of Slicer4. This include mapping MRML annotation nodes to and from vtkWidgets, mapping vtkMRMLModelNode and hierarchies to vtkActors/vtkMappers.

Others:

• Fidicials (all annotations)
• ROIs
• VolumeRendering
• Module-specific rendering (should be possible for loadable module to register a class that maps MRML nodes to-from elements in the vtkRenderWindow

Approach, Plan

Create a vtkSlicerManagerFactory and vtkSlicerAbstractManager. The vtkSlicerAbstractManager is parameterized by a vtkRenderWindow and is subclassed for each purpose. The vtkSlicerManagerFactory holds a registry of manager types so that when a new 3D Viewer is create, a set of managers is associated with the viewer.

Loadable modules should be able to access to ManagerFactory and register custom manager types to handle their custom nodes.

Progress

• created architecture and coded initial implementation of new vtkMRMLDisplayableManager library including
  • vtkMRMLDisplayableManagerFactory class
  • vtkMRMLAbstractDisplayableManager class
  • vtkMRMLModelDisplayableManager class

Delivery Mechanism

This work will be delivered to the NA-MIC Kit as a (please select the appropriate options by noting YES against them below)

1. ITK Module
2. Slicer Module
   1. Built-in
   2. Extension -- commandline
   3. Extension -- loadable
3. Other (Please specify) YES: Slicer4 base code.

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