I’ve just installed Version 5.10.0 to realize that Lightbox view was removed.
While I understand that many don’t use it, it was the single most helpful image review setting. It allows one to review and compare thick sliced imaging in a single view. Would it be possible to return it?
Thanks for the feedback about the utility of lightbox mode. The mode was removed because it was carried forward from an older generation of Slicer infrastructure and difficult to maintain while modernizing other features. There’s some more detail, and a suggested alternative in the links below. It would be great to support your use case with one of the more sustainable implementations.
The lightbox feature is still available, but in Screen Capture module. If works more similarly to a traditional film, e.g., you get one static high-resolution image. If you provide more information about your workflow and needs then we may be able to make it work more conveniently for you (for example, make it easier to generate or review the image).
Yeah I use it to co-register too images and then move the slider to review whole studies by moving the fader between fore- and background. It’s the single most efficient method to review longitudinal changes in patients with numerous brain metastases, or people with large tumors with spatially heterogeneous responses.
I do agree that the handling is tedious but I got it figured. So when I have 1mm slice thickness it would take way too many slices to review a study so I go to Manual slice thickness, turn it to somewhere between 3 and 5mm. THen this doesn’t get applied automatically, so I turn on the lightbox again and it then yields the thicker slices (fewer images laid out). Fiducials and the crosshair don’t work in this mode but it’s still extremely efficient.
I reverted back to the previous mode for now. Perhaps keeping it but hiding it under a menu could provide both simplification in the interface but also would keep this legacy formatting. I’m working on a paper at the moment to show clinical utility of this approach.
Thanks for all the work on these updates / Köszi szépen!