2024.07.30 Weekly Meeting

Community Weekly meetings
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Tomorrow, we will be having our next weekly hangout at 10:00 AM ET until 11:00 AM ET

Anyone is welcome to join at this link: https://bit.ly/slicer-googlemeet-hosted-by-kitware

Agenda:

Please post to this thread to put a topic on the agenda! We will try to prioritize agenda items during the meeting.

Thanks
Sam and J-Christophe

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Meeting Notes

Edward Wang’s Inquiry:

  • Question: In the context of a scientific journal, are there any issues with featuring Slicer in a video to illustrate how a custom extension works?
    • Response: There are no restrictions. It is recommended to adhere to academic best practices in terms of describing the methods and results presented.

Autoscoper:

  • Challenge: 3D to 3D registration with Elastix presents challenges, especially when the fixed volume includes a complete set of structures (e.g., bones) and the moving volume is a partial volume with a single structure.
    • Recommendations:
      • Roughly crop the fixed volume to include a single structure.
      • If segmentation of both structures is available, consider using SegmentRegistration.

SlicerSOFA:

Dashboard:

Slicer VTK Updates:

  • Update Plan: The Kitware Europe team will work on submitting pull requests to remove deprecated uses of VTK and update Slicer/VTK to publish a new branch.

MRML as Python Package(s):

  • Plan:
    • Support building MRML as a Python module directly from the Slicer code base.
    • Once the classes belonging to the wheels are identified/refactored, the source will be extracted into its own repository.
  • Related Issues and Pull Requests:

Additional Resources:

  • Introduction to Medical Software: Course Link
  • LapGym: An open-source framework for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. LapGym Information