Using Customized 3D Slicer on Mobile Devices (App or Web Hosting)

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Hi everyone,

I’ve customized 3D Slicer using the Kitware template and am now exploring the possibility of using this setup on mobile devices, without needing to run the full desktop application on a PC or laptop.

Specifically, I have two main questions:

  1. Is it possible to package or run 3D Slicer as a mobile app (Android/iOS)?
  2. Alternatively, can 3D Slicer be hosted (e.g., on a server) and accessed via mobile browsers or lightweight client apps?

The goal is to allow users to interact with the customized Slicer features directly on their mobile devices.

Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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Slicer can be run and accessed from the cloud or from a remote desktop solution. You can find descriptions on hot to run it from AWS, for example. You may even be able to access these from a web browser.
A few links (some may be outdated but still may give a hint)

Porting Slicer to ARM64 is under way, but going one step even further and compiling it for a mobile OS is a totally different league. Not easily doable at all, but it of course depends on the resources :slight_smile:
A few pages that may give you a hint on this topic:

Edit: there is a VTK repo for Android, that may come handy too:

via:

Hope this helps,
Attila

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You might also want to consider trame-slicer.

We are still (as of spring 2025) ironing things out and will eventually communicate more about it.

Some didn’t wait and have already started using it.