2025.10.14 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. a

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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We would like to discuss the current status and future needs for the visual DICOM browser (with @Davide_Punzo and @fedorov).

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I would like to talk about the telemetry extension.

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Meeting Notes

DICOM Documentation

  • Reviewed PR-8786, which provides documentation on Slicer integration in hospital/PACS environments.
  • The goal is to offer practical guidance for connecting Slicer or Slicer-based applications to DICOM AEs in clinical workflows.
  • Documentation reflects assumptions like the inability to auto-discover DICOM AEs, the need for pre-configured endpoints, and support for both push (C-STORE) and pull (C-FIND/C-MOVE) operations.

Visual DICOM Browser

Reviewed project from 42nd NA-MIC Project Week: Visual DICOM Browser.

Key Features:

  • Proxying of DICOM requests (to route queries through another service).
  • Multi-threaded querying for improved responsiveness.

Discussion Highlights:

  • Clear distinction between research and clinical workflows: clinical usage is typically patient-centric, with a known patient ID.

  • Encouraged refactoring the existing DICOM browser to leverage the same model used by the Visual DICOM browser.

  • Considering refactoring of the backend to support TLS-based querying.

  • Usability suggestions:

    • Add a more visible button to toggle the Visual Browser (currently hard to find).
    • Avoid displaying placeholder thumbnails when none are available, to improve user experience.

Next Steps and Roadmap: