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The effective visualization, data processing, analysis and interaction of medical images and ancillary data is a complex process requiring sophisticated and efficient software tools. Further, the development of new tools requires a productive and widely supported software environment. In such an environment, the human-computer interface plays a critical role in the overall effectiveness of the software tools. To this end, the Slicer graphical user interface (GUI) is to be significantly enhanced by the adoption of the standard and widely used Qt GUI toolkit. Qt has recently changed its licensing terms, meaning that it is now compatible with Slicer's commitment to open systems. Further, Qt is now recognized as the defacto standard, cross-platform GUI toolkit, offering superior performance, capability and productivity.
Research Plan
Slicer currently has an extensive GUI that consists of three major, logical parts: 1) the core, 2) command-line modules, and 3) modules. The research plan recognizes this organization, and will address the GUI development accordingly.
- The first step is to replace the core GUI with Qt. This will demand some initial design and planning, including integration of various Qt tools such as Qt Designer.
- Second, the command-line modules automatically generate their GUI from an XML description of the module. This will require modification so that Qt GUIs are generated (instead of the current KWWidgets).
- Finally, select, critical modules such as EM Segmenter will be reworked to use Qt widgets.
- Most of this work will occur in the first year, with completion of the critical modules expected early in the first quarter of the second year.
- After this, the research plan switches to training and dissemination of Qt-related technology so that the broader Slicer community can participate in the transition of modules to the Qt GUI.
- The key to this plan is to switch the core and command-line modules as fast as possible since we want to minimize disruption to the Slicer community, and to support continued Slicer development.
Key Personnel
- William Schroeder, Ph.D., 8%, 9/17/2009 - 9/16/2011
- Stephen Aylward, Ph.D., 5%
- Jean-Christophe FILLION-ROBIN, 50%
- Julien Finet, 50%
Meetings
- Regular meeting TCons every other Tuesday at 2:00pm
Links
Progress
- February 2, 2011
- Preparing for CTK hackfest: tcons, presentations, and packaging for CTK
- Upgrading Slicer4 dashboards with Dave P in support of testing modules
- Investigating automated binary upload
- January 28, 2011
- Extending support for modules and workflows based on Python
- Assisting in the integration of the Annotation module into Slicer4
- January 19, 2011
- Bug fixing based on feedbacks from Slicer 4.0 beta-2
- January 12, 2011
- Released Slicer 4.0 beta2
- All Hands Meeting 2011 in Salt Lake City
- Presentation of the status of the port and step-by-step tutorials
- January 5, 2011
- Tweaking and bug fixing based on feedbacks from Slicer 4.0 beta
- Preparation for Slicer 4.0 beta-2 and All Hands Meeting 2011
- New settings: Select "Home" module, show text under toolbar icons
- Widgets: Rename nodes from node selector, delete nodes from Data module, corner annotations.
- December 29, 2010
- Holiday break
- December 22, 2010
- Holiday break
- December 15, 2010
- Bug fixing and packaging for Slicer 4.0 beta release
- December 8, 2010
- Support Scripted (Python) modules
- New module: Endoscopy
- New dialogs
- December 1, 2010
- New module: Models module
- New widget
- November 24, 2010
- New widget: Volume information widget
- New dialog: Color dialog
- November 17, 2010
- New widget: Color table view
- New module: Color module
- November 10, 2010
- Work on Python scripting
- Add range control and symmetric moves capability in the window level range widget and threshold widget
- Add navigation view
- November 3, 2010
- Add snapshot feature in Manipulate 3D View toolbar
- Finished redesign of the internal structure of MRML to Qt scene interface
- October 27, 2010
- October 20, 2010
- Dashboard cleaning (fixed and added more tests)
- Redesign of internal structures (layout manager, scene model...)
- October 13, 2010
- Launcher application: Add support for Macs
- Slicer module description parser ported to Qt (CTK)
- October 6, 2010
- Updating and integrating launcher application
- Revising dashboards to use launcher application
- Continuing to establish tasks and assign priorities for this and related NA-MIC funding
- Collecting bug reports, etc from user community regarding Alpha Release
- Planning vtkWidget and other organizational meetings
- September 29, 2010
- Revising dashboards to use new Slicer4 repository
- Establishing priorities for year 2
- September 22, 2010
- Planned: Re-evaluate priorities for editor module. Perhaps it should go in an earlier release.
- Planned: Host design discussion for vtkWidgets, Editor Module, and CUDA in Slicer Qt for interactive segmentation
- Planned: Consider interactions that can provide intuitive and precise manipulation of and direct the processing of data that spans a wide range of scales in time and space.
- September 15, 2010
- Attending CTK Hackfest in Spain
- Assisting in the integration of Qt Widgets developed for Slicer into the main CTK trunk
- Providing tutorials on software engineering practices used in Slicer Qt development
- September 8, 2010
- Alpha release of Slicer Qt 4 is being packaged
- Final tests being added to improve coverage
- Backporting final set of changes to ITK and VTK releases
- September 1, 2010
- Preparation for Slicer 4.0 alpha: bug fixes, cosmetic changes, dashboard cleaning
- Modules
- Add more features (color table chooser, preset buttons) to the Volumes module
- Widgets
- Widgets
- Add the toolbar to control 3D views
- August 25, 2010
- Support Lightbox in 2D slice views
- Tcl is now interfaced with Python
- Widgets
- support for VTK charts with Qt
- Add advanced menu in the 2D slice Views
- August 18, 2010
- Event: Review of the state of Slicer port to Qt: QtAugust2010
- August 11, 2010
- Integration: Full support of PythonQt (wrapping of custom classes)
- Widgets: Dynamically support sets of different icon size
- August 4, 2010
- ToolBar:
- Added qMRMLSlicesControllerToolBar to control the red/yellow/green slice displays.
- Added qSlicerMouseModeToolBar to control the mouse mode (first draft).
- Added Undo/Redo toolbar
- Added links Slicer documentation into the menu bar
- Dialogs: Added qSlicerActionsDialog to show the application shortcuts
- ToolBar:
- July 28, 2010
- Work on improving the design of the interaction between MRML and vtk rendering
- Application: Tweak UI/Style (support smalllarge fonts)
- ToolBar: Added qSlicerModuleSelectorToolBar
- Modules: new qSlicerSliceControllersModule
- July 21, 2010
- Work on improving the design of the interaction between MRML and vtk rendering
- Application: A big step forward the integration of the 3D/2D views in SlicerQT
- Modules: Added Acknowledgement tab to modules
- Widgets: improved qMRMLThreeDView and qMRMLSliceViewWidget
- July 14, 2010
- Work on improving the design of the interaction between MRML and vtk rendering
- Widgets: Preliminary work on qMRMLColorTableNodeComboBox
- Widgets: Added colors to the slider handles of the ROI module widgets
- July 7, 2010
- Work on improving the design of the interaction between MRML and vtk rendering
- Modules: Data module (new)
- Widgets: ctkFileDialog to customize QFileDialog
- Dialogs: Added support for selecting files for volumes, models, scalar overlay, color table, fiducial lists and fiber bundles
- June 30, 2010
- Work on improving the design of the interaction between MRML and vtk rendering
- Modules: ROI module (new) (Data module: WIP)
- Widgets: ROI widget (new)
- June 23, 2010
- June 16, 2010
- Preparation for 2010 Summer Project Week
- Work on the 3D and 2D render widgets
- June 9, 2010
- Work on Slicer Superbuild
- Work on Slicer launcher
- New launcher (http://github.com/jcfr/CTKAppLauncher)
- Dashboard is setup
- Code coverage is >85%
- Modules
- qSlicerVolumesModule integrated an histogram widget (WIP)
- June 2, 2010
- Work on Slicer Superbuild
- Work on Slicer launcher
- Panels
- qSlicerSaveDataDialog now saves scene + data
- Widgets
- ctkRangeWidget: new property - spinBoxAlignment
- ctkRangeWidget: new feature - the slider between the 2 handles can be drag/drop, it moves both handles at a time.
- May 26, 2010
- Work on Slicer superbuild
- New widgets
- Histogram widget (still need to be integrated into Slicer)
- May 19, 2010
- Participation of the CTK Meeting
- Work on a launcher for Slicer Qt
- Work on transfer function widget editors.
- Participation of the CTK Meeting
- May 12, 2010
- Slicer4 branch has been merged into the trunk (after Slicer3.6 has been created)
- Integration: Superbuild is now working on Windows/Linux for Slicer Qt
- Widgets
- Layout Manager (WIP)
- 3D Render View (WIP)
- Slicer View (WIP)
- Dialogs
- Settings Manager (WIP)
- May 05, 2010
- Integration: Slicer with Qt now supports CMake 2.9 (patch had to be send to the CMake community)
- Widgets
- 3D Render View (WIP)
- Minor bug fixes (qMRMLNodeComboBox, ctkSliderSpinboxWidget, ...)
- Apr 28, 2010
- Integration: PythonQt functionality has been ported into CTK (moved out of Slicer)
- Modules
- WIP: Command Line Modules
- File Dialogs
- WIP: qSlicerSaveDataDialog to save the scene data (UI is complete, logic is missing).
- Widgets
- NEW: ctkDirectoryButton a button tied to a directory path selector dialog
- WIP: Render widget
- Apr 21, 2010
- Integration: 100% of CTK widgets have been moved out of Slicer.
- Widgets
- WIP: ctkTransferFunctionWidget a color transfer function widget editor
- Apr 14, 2010
- Integration: CTK is now linked by Slicer Superbuild (CTK widgets are still in Slicer though).
- File Dialogs
- qSlicerDataDialog has been updated to support specific type options and checkable headers
- Widgets
- New widgets: qCTKCheckableHeaderView a checkable QHeaderView
- Apr 7, 2010
- File Dialogs
- New dialog: qSlicerDataDialog
- File Readers: more work done in the direction of a flexible IO plugin mechanism
- File Dialogs
- Apr 1, 2010
- Integration: More work done to move CTK widgets into the CTK repository
- File Dialogs: Preliminary work to port the KWWidgets dialogs to Qt. New dialog: qSlicerStandardFileDialog.
- File Readers: New architecture to register readers/writers from loadable modules
- Supported files: *.mrml, *.xml, volumes, models...
- Mar 24, 2010
- Integration: Preparation to move CTK widgets into the CTK repository and link against it
- Widgets
- New widgets: qCTKDoubleRangeSlider, a range slider that supports doubles. qCTKRangeWidget, a ready to use qCTKDoubleRangeSlider with linked spinboxes.
- Mar 17, 2010
- Integration: Work on CTK for a smooth integration with Slicer
- Modules: a new module has been ported to Qt: Volumes module (WIP)
- Widgets
- New widgets: qMRMLVolumeThresholdWidget a widget to select a threshold, ctkDICOMModel a model to represents a DICOM database (SQLite).
- Mar 10, 2010
- Integration: CTK now has its own repository, CTK widgets will be moved from Slicer to git CTK
- Widgets:
- New widgets: qCTKNodeComboBox replaces qMRMLNodeSelector, qMRMLWindowLevelWidget to select window/level values
- Mar 03, 2010
- Integration: PythonQt is integrated into Slicer (partial support of Qt widgets)
- Qt Designer: added icons to the qCTKWidgets & qMRMLWidgets plugins to quickly find the right widgets
- Widgets:
- New widgets: qCTKRangeSlider a slider with 2 handles, qMRMLNodeComboBox replaces qMRMLNodeSelector (no +, - or edit icons) (WIP)
- Feb 24, 2010
- Integration: PythonQt (WIP)
- Widgets:
- Redesign qMRMLNodeSelector to use qMRMLSceneModel (WIP)
- Move the Add/Remove/Edit push buttons of qMRMLNodeSelector under the popup list of nodes (WIP)
- Bug fixes, code cleanup
- Feb 17, 2010
- Integration: Preliminary work for integrating PythonQt
- Widgets:
- new features: qCTKSliderSpinBoxWidget has a tracking property (valueIsChanging), qCTKMenuButton now directly uses the QMenu from QPushButton
- new tools: qCTKGroupButton (exclusive button group allowing no button to be selected), qCTKDynamicSpacer (sizePolicy controlled by a slot)
- Bug fixes, code cleanup
- Feb 10, 2010
- Integration of Qt designer into Slicer: the qt application to design module UIs (designer) can now be launch through Slicer: "Slicer3 --launch designer"
- Arguments/Settings: qCTKSettings can store application settings, added classes to parse the application command line arguments: qVTKCommandOptions, qSlicerCoreCommandOptions, qSlicerCommandOptions
- Some module logics have been separated from the KWWidgets modules to be reused by Qt modules: ModelMirror, AtlasCreator, MRAblation, FetchMI...
- Widgets:
- ported more features from the KWWidgets : qMRMLNodeSelector (support multi node types, attributes, ...),
- tuned behavior of some widgets, i.e. qCTKSliderSpinBoxWidget:size synchronization of the spinboxes, text right aligned ...
- Testing: qCTKAddRemoveComboBox, qCTKTestApplication, qVTKObject...
- Feb 03, 2010
- Style: QCleanLooksStyle has been choosen to be the default Slicer style
- The module logics in KWWidgets modules can now be reused in Qt modules
- New widgets: qCTKMenuButton, qMRMLSceneFactoryWidget (for testing MRML widgets in Designer)
- New module ported to Qt: Tractography
- Jan 27, 2010
- Command line modules: finalizing the integration with Slicer.
- Render Widget: Preliminary work has been started (qVTKRenderView)
- New widgets: qMRMLEventLoggerWidget logs all the events generated by a vtkMRMLScene (for debugging only).
- Design improvement: Using feedbacks from slicer developers, we applied changes to correct heavy/unfriendly designs.
- Testing: Added qCTKModelTester, a QT object that can test the correctness of any class deriving from QAbstractItemModel.
- Jan 20, 2010
- New widget: a generic framework for handling MRML objects in list/table/tree widgets has been developped( drag/drop supported, reparenting, scene observers...)
- Quality: compilation warnings have been removed.
- Testing: a skeleton for unit test has been written for each classes
- Jan 13, 2010
- Outcome of the NAMIC All Hands meeting
- 2 new tutorials: Port of Slicer to Qt, First steps with Qt
- Slicer with Qt has been successfully compiled on several machines under Linux, Windows and Mac. The building instructions have been updated.
- A few dashboards have been setup to compile with Qt. We count on you to submit more dashboards.
- More unit tests have been written
- 2 new modules have been created with Qt
- A lot of installation bugs/problems have been resolved
- Outcome of the NAMIC All Hands meeting
- Jan 07, 2010
- Setup dashboards in Qt (Nightly, Continuous and Experimental builds)
- More unary tests added
- NAMIC All Hands meeting
- Presentation of Port of Slicer to Qt to the Slicer community
- Workshop provided to help slicer developers to setup a Slicer environment running with Qt.
- First modules developed by the community
- Dec 30, 2009
- Added support for modules with no corresponding KWWidgets modules: New modules in QT only can now be created.
- Bug fixes on Windows.
- Dec 22, 2009
- Added tests
- Tree widgets: WIP
- Command Line modules: WIP
- Dec 16, 2009
- Modules can now be ported into Qt by the Slicer community. Presentation: Port of Slicer to Qt
- Dec 9, 2009
- New widgets: qMRMLItemModel, qMRMLListWidget, qMRMLTreeWidget
- Screen-casts: videos made for RSNA
- More work on the CLI modules, Slicer Qt only, now compiles on MAC OS X,
- Dec 2, 2009
- Command Line modules integration: First results (UI only)
- Interface between MRML Scene and the Qt (tree, list, table...) widgets: WIP
- Nov 25, 2009
- New Module: Welcome Module
- New tutorial: Using Qt Designer with CTK & MRML widgets
- Command Line modules integration: WIP.
- Nov 18, 2009
- New widgets: Tree Combo Box, Node Tree Selector
- New feature: Support for help: example of an help section automatically added into a module
- Command Line modules integration: WIP.
- Nov 13, 2009
- rework on the Transforms Module
- started to work on the Command Line modules integration.
- Nov 6, 2009
- Loadable Modules are now supported.
- Added Cameras Module
- Oct 30, 2009
- The entire Qt-Slicer code architecture has been reviewed, factorized and simplified. Coding rules have been chosen (not documented yet).
- Documentation: Added a tutorial to write custom widgets
- Oct 23, 2009
- New widgets: Collapsible widget, Color Picker button
- Oct 16, 2009
- Synchronization between Qt widgets and KWWidget. Move the qt panels when the application is moved on the desktop.
- New widgets: Coordinates widget, Collapsible groupbox
- Oct 9, 2009
- TCon with Julien Finet (J2), Jean-Christophe (JC), Steve, Will, Seb, Stephen, Wendy, Nicole to discuss progress
- Demonstrated new software architecture that simplifies building new modules
- Addressed issues of background color, etc previously raised by Dr. Kikinis QtTransformModule-v2.png
- New widgets: Matrix Widget, Transform Sliders
- Oct 2, 2009
- TCon with JC, Steve, Will, Seb, Stephen, Wendy, Nicole
- Demonstrated initial software architecture
- Uploaded screenshot of first module and received feedback from Dr. Kikinis QtTransformModule.png
- Designed basic widgets: Linear Transform Slider, Node Selector
- Sept 25, 2009
- Sept 22, 20009
- TCon with JC, Will, Sebastien, Steve
- Added Qt dual-slider into Slicer
- September 16-17, 2009