2025.01.25 Weekly Meeting

Community Weekly meetings
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Meeting Notes

Slicer 5.8 Release

  • Recent Changes: Discussed updates related to the distribution of runtime libraries.
  • Visual Studio Update:
    • Agreed to update the Visual Studio version installed on the Windows factory (bluestreak) before the release.
    • Ensures that both Stable and Preview extensions can be built using the same compiler.
  • Next Steps:
    • Pause the build of Stable extensions.
    • Update Visual Studio on the Windows factory.
    • Wait for the January 21st preview build to complete.
    • Begin the release process on January 22nd.

Refactor Corner Annotations

  • Overview: @arhowe00 presented an overview of PR #8143.
  • Generalizing MRML Node Attributes:
    • Discussed generalizing MRML node attributes to allow specific “data” nodes to advertise attributes (e.g., DICOM-related attributes).
    • Proposed a generalized approach building on the existing vtkMRMLAbstractAnnotationPropertyValueProvider.

Curved Planar Reformat (CPR)

  • Work-in-Progress: A pull request implementing CPR logic into Slicer core has been submitted by @Lee_Newberg. See PR #8148.

Slicer Telemetry

  • Hackathon Opportunity:
    • The upcoming Slicer Hackathon hosted by Kitware on January 24th will provide a chance to review and make progress on telemetry-related tasks. Cc: @

Slicer-SOFA

  • Simplifying Scene Creation:
    • Discussed facilitating the creation of SOFA scenes in Slicer-SOFA. Paul Baksic is developing a “Prefabs” system (Issue Slicer/SlicerSOFA#40).
    • Prefabs act as an abstraction layer to simplify the creation of simulations.
  • Lung Simulation Demo:
    • @pieper demonstrated a lung deflation simulation where the segmented lung was deformed in the image space, leaving an “air gap” between the ribs and the deflated lung.
    • This highlights the potential of combining simulations with transformations applied to medical volumes within segmented areas.