Hello all,
I am using a Software for OCT that send me a real time frames that it takes and I want to use Slicer to make a real time 3D object Visualization. I need to modify in my software to open Slicer and start sending data feme by frame and start to view the 3D while time.
The problem that I don’t know how to interface with Slicer to make it do this from the Code or how to deal with slicer in real time.
Thanks
Slicer can receive real-time data through OpenIGTLink, a very simple socket-based protocol. Image display, processing, sequence recording/replay, etc. are all already implemented. You can learn more about these features in SlicerIGT tutorials.
We typically use PLUS toolkit to receive image streams from various imaging devices. It may be usable for you as is, if you plan to acquire image from the OCT using a framegrabber. PLUS can also acquire data from various optical, electromagnetic, and other position trackers and reconstruct 3D volumes from 2D image slices in real-time.
Could you explain more how can I use this and generate the 3D object by sending my 2D frames.
Until recently, volume reconstruction was always performed by PlusServer, see demo below and step-by-step instructions in SlicerIGT tutorials:
In recent Slicer versions, you can reconstruct volumes in Slicer process, too. @Sunderlandkyl can provide more details if you need this.
I have a device that not supported by the Plus tool here
http://perk-software.cs.queensu.ca/plus/doc/nightly/user/Configuration.html
So I need to send frames from the code and I Can’t find how to make this. The code generate frame by frame and if I have a API that I can use it to send the frame and make volume reconstruction this will be great.
Sorry for to many questions.
You can implement OpenIGTLink protocol to send real-time image, transform, point, etc. data to Slicer. There are libraries for C++, Python, Java, Matlab that can help implementing sending of OpenIGTLink messages. You may also add a new device to Plus toolkit (by cloning and modifying source code of a similar device).
Can you help me in this issue
I would not try to use mex files. Instead, you may try native Matlab implementations of OpenIGTLink, such as this: https://github.com/SlicerIGT/MatlabOpenIGTLink
We migrated all our projects from Matlab to Python, so we cannot help much with these Matlab implementations anymore. However, if Python is an option for you then we can definitely help you with that.
actually my project is with cpp and now I just want any easy tool to make a prototype then I will work on the integration with the cpp software.
So if you can help in python I could make the prototype with it it’s fine to make this.
Also I see in one of your comments that there is a team in vanderbilt that work with this tool as I am in vanderbilt so can you tell me who to ask ?
Thanks
Also this : https://github.com/SlicerIGT/MatlabOpenIGTLink in for only STRING, TRANSFORM and NDArray(1D Float Array) messages and I have a volume which is collection of 2D images .
There have been several OpenIGTLink Matlab implementations, some of them able to transfer images, too, but if you need C++ then you can use this SDK: https://github.com/openigtlink/OpenIGTLink. It has C++ examples that you can use as “prototypes” as is.
There is a small native Python OpenIGTLink implementation, which already supports a few basic message types: https://github.com/SlicerIGT/pyIGTLink.
I use windows 10 with amd64 what is the version of the Cmake that should I use and which generator to use with is like the attached image 
Also after that I how tyo compile the sln as I tried to compile it with diffrent versions of Visual studio but I don’t get the 2 files that is needed as the build instructions here say:
Also this is the logs of the configration and I don’t know whats wrong
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igtlSocketTest.cxx is currently commented out from the OpenIGTLinkTesting project. Someone had a similar issue and the developer that previously spent a lot of time on the project responded here. As you have noticed the build instructions are not completely up-to-date, however you have built the project successfully.