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.
- Recommendations:
SlicerSOFA:
- Integration: The integration of SlicerSOFA into the extensions manager is nearly finalized.
- Reference: SlicerSOFA Integration Pull Request
- Ongoing Work: Adding support for SofaDefrost/SoftRobots to SlicerSOFA.
Dashboard:
- Notification: The Computron macOS dashboard will be offline from August 2nd to August 6th.
- Reference: Dashboard Relocation Announcement
Slicer VTK Updates:
- Update Plan: The Kitware Europe team will work on submitting pull requests to remove deprecated uses of VTK and update
Slicer/VTKto 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
- Add support for re-packaging and distributing existing VTK wheel SDKs: Kitware/vtk-sdk-python-distributions Issue #1
- Enable MRML to be built as a standalone Python Wheel: Pull Request #7491
Additional Resources:
- Introduction to Medical Software: Course Link
- LapGym: An open-source framework for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. LapGym Information