2024.09.10 Weekly Meeting

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Meeting Notes

Updates from TY Park: pty0220 on GitHub, park on Discourse

• FUS (Focused Ultrasound) and TMS simulation (real-time) & visualization updates.
• MICCAI publication on SlicerTMS will be featured as an oral presentation of the poster. More details can be found here.
• Watch the related video: https://youtu.be/TRhmNf8oVCA.

Dental Applications in Slicer

• A coordinated development of foundational features like panoramic view support is recommended.
• Related feature request:
  • #7179: Add built-in support for Curved Planar Reformation (CPR).
• Potential collaborators:
  • Lucia Cevidanes’ group at Michigan University: link, CMF Slicer.
  • Ebatinca’s DENT.AI.
  • Kitware . Read about the Dental Segmentator Extension.

New Icon Design

• Discussed proposed icons for segment editor effects. View the icons here.

• Examples of menu items that could benefit from icons for improved accessibility:

  • The ‘Show 3D’ option in the Segment Editor could use a consistent icon.

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  • Possible new icon for the Volume Rendering module: .

• Discussed the possibility of displaying tooltips in the status bar/data probe when hovering over items.

Slicer Training Page

• @lassoan has drafted a new landing page for Slicer training, which will be hosted at tutorials.slicer.org. View the draft here.

Example Marp Repository

• Example Markdown repository: MorphoDepotDocs, which auto-renders to a website: https://pieper.github.io/MorphoDepotDocs. Limited in scope but potentially useful for specific types of sites.

Upcoming VTK Changes

• Runtime detection of GLX, EGL, and OSMesa for OpenGL context will be enabled. See merge request for more details.

Certificate Issue

• Further investigation needed to develop a simple yet secure solution.
• Related posts:
  • Sandbox module cannot be downloaded via extension manager today?
  • How can Slicer be configured to cooperate with institutions that enforces SSL bumping and use self-signed certificates at the Firewall?

Slicer 5.8 Release Plan

• Tentative release scheduled for the last week of October.
• Updates to VTK and transition to Qt 6 are postponed for a later release.
• Associated Milestone will be updated in next week’s hangout.
• A GDCM/ITK patch will be required to address a regression in the DICOM database. See:
  • Discourse post.
  • ITK issue.

Brief Discussion: Software as a Medical Device