# A free biomedical image analysis and visualization 2-day course

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**Created:** [April 13, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/a-free-biomedical-image-analysis-and-visualization-2-day-course/2584 "2018-04-13T17:33:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/a-free-biomedical-image-analysis-and-visualization-2-day-course/2584/10 "2018-04-17T13:32:31Z")

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Participating at a 2-day course in person is a great learning opportunity. However, if you cannot make it, then there is online training material already available that should keep you busy for about a year:

- Read the [VTK textbook](https://www.vtk.org/vtk-textbook/), cover to cover, 2-3 times (I’m serious, read all of it; and read it several times, as in the first pass you’ll not have deep enough understanding to get all details); this is essential, don’t do anything else before you read the book completely at least once
- Skim through [VTK examples](https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/)
- Skim through the [ITK software guide](http://www.itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf), and read parts that are relevant for your tasks
- Complete a couple of [SimpleITK tutorials](http://www.simpleitk.org/SimpleITK/help/documentation.html)
- Complete a few online courses about Python and numpy
- Complete a few online tutorials about Qt basics
- Complete all [Slicer tutorials](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Training)
- If relevant for your work, complete all [SlicerIGT tutorials](http://www.slicerigt.org/wp/user-tutorial/)

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