Slicer3:MiniRetreat February 5-7, 2008

Jim Miller will meet with Steve Pieper and company on Feb. 5-7, 2007 for a mini-retreat. This will be a detailed work session focusing on the following topics:

• Time series visualization
  • More Slice Viewers than (red, green, yellow) + specific layout of the screen + more control over linked parameters
• Layout manager
  • More options for user to pick/define layouts (number and layout of screen areas, what to show in an area)
• B-spline transform and registration support
  • Need to fix B-spline CLI module
  • Need a MRML node for B-spline transforms
  • Need a VTK transform to wrap an ITK B-spline transform
  • Modeling transforms verses imaging transforms. What transform should Slicer have in the scene? Should volumes be placed under transforms automatically?
  • Need to ensure that the Slicer GUI experience with the registration modules and transforms is "consistent" with the Slicer command line experience.
  • Need a TransformVolume module (Francois and Sylvain are doing this for DWI/DTI and this can be reworked to also handle scalars in a unified manner).
• ModuleFactoryTest hanging
  • FIXED. Path issue when exec'ing modules with --xml
• Look at MedianImageFilterTest timing out on windows debug builds. (DONE: seems to be a big (300x) difference in debug vs. release of nth_element STL method for windows debug. TODO: there is not obvious fix but to use a smaller image).
• Lightbox Enhancements - what are the low hanging fruit
• CLI GUI
  • Can we reload them - i.e. tear down the current GUI and reparse the XML to make a new GUI (this would be helpful for module developers for iterating on the GUI - e.g. this was a request from Ross).
  • Can we make the GUI more 'aware' of the state of slicer. E.g. picking default volumes based on what is in the viewer currently.
  • For the model maker should we look at creating a custom module GUI that has more flexible options, but then invokes the command line.
• MRMLIDImageIO access to Diffusion volume types
• Layout of library files and resources in build and install trees (FIXED: launch.tcl.in modified to detect new layout of install tree).