# 2024.07.30 Weekly Meeting

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2024-07-30-weekly-meeting/37617>\
**Category:** Weekly meetings\
**Created:** [July 29, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2024-07-30-weekly-meeting/37617 "2024-07-29T20:06:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Horvath](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/sam_horvath/32/3092_2.png) [@Sam\_Horvath](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sam_Horvath)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2024-07-30-weekly-meeting/37617/1 "2024-07-29T20:06:35Z")

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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](https://bit.ly/slicer-googlemeet-hosted-by-kitware)

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> **Weekly Meeting**
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> **Starts:** July 30, 2024, 10:00am (America/New\_York)\
> **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.

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Thanks  
Sam and J-Christophe

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2024-07-30-weekly-meeting/37617/2 "2024-07-30T21:51:06Z")

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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](https://github.com/SlicerRt/SegmentRegistration).

#### SlicerSOFA:

- **Integration:** The integration of SlicerSOFA into the extensions manager is nearly finalized.
  - Reference: [SlicerSOFA Integration Pull Request](https://github.com/Slicer/SlicerSOFA/pull/22)

- **Ongoing Work:** Adding support for [SofaDefrost/SoftRobots](https://github.com/SofaDefrost/SoftRobots) to [SlicerSOFA](https://github.com/RafaelPalomar/SlicerSOFA/tree/feature/softrobots-plugin).

#### Dashboard:

- **Notification:** The Computron macOS dashboard will be offline from August 2nd to August 6th.
  - Reference: [Dashboard Relocation Announcement](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/2024-08-02-to-2024-08-06-latest-macos-packages-will-not-be-built-while-machine-is-relocated/37610)

#### 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:**
  - Update vtk-addon for integration with Slicer as a VTK module: [Issue #7613](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/7613)
  - Add support for re-packaging and distributing existing VTK wheel SDKs: [Kitware/vtk-sdk-python-distributions Issue #1](https://github.com/Kitware/vtk-sdk-python-distributions/issues/1)
  - Enable MRML to be built as a standalone Python Wheel: [Pull Request #7491](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/pull/7491)

#### Additional Resources:

- **Introduction to Medical Software:** [Course Link](https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-to-medical-software)
- **LapGym:** An open-source framework for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. [LapGym Information](https://www.sofa-framework.org/applications/plugins/lapgym/)