2007 December Slicer IGT Programming IGSTK Slicer Integration

Names

• Session leader
  • Patrick Cheng

• participants
  • Steve Pieper
  • Ziv
  • Nobi Hata
  • David Gobi
  • Stephen Aylward
  • Peter Kazanzides
  • Luis Ibanez

Technology/Function description

• Exposing the Tracker functionality of IGSTK to Slicer
• How to integrate event loops between trackers and GUI Tcl main event loop.

Potential application in IGT

• Provide Tracker functionality in Slicer
  • Aurora Tracker
  • Polaris Tracker
  • Micron Tracker
  • Potentially add Robots as trackers (Johns Hopkins)

Which part is already in Slicer

• IGSTK compilation configuration
• MRML scene graph structure
  • Transform nodes

What is not

• IGSTK Tracker
  • Functionality of using Sockets for sending Tracker data to Slicer

Links

• www.igstk.org
• www.vtk.org
  • http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkServerSocket.html
  • http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkClientSocket.html
  • http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSocket.html
  • http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSocketCollection.html
  • http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSocketCommunicator.html
  • http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkSocketController.html