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Great Accomplishments of 2017

Leading the way toward 2018

Attribution 4.0 International

Up-to-date link: https://goo.gl/xFQkdQ

Stats: https://goo.gl/xFQkdQ+

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What is 3D Slicer ?

  • Community�
  • Medical imaging analysis and processing solution�
  • End user application�
  • Research platform�
  • Platform for building custom/simple/lean app and modules

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Some Slicer Stats for 2017

Slicer 4.8 Release (~1200 commits, 700 tests)

Slicer Discourse Forum: 680 users

3 Projects weeks across 3 countries: 208 attendees

Downloads: 238k (2016) -> 352k (2017) [100k download in 2017 alone]

1050 citations (~300 in 2017)

13 ResearchGate updates

448 GitHub stars

Thanks to Mike Halle�http://download.slicer.org/download-stats/

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Transition to Discourse forum (April 2017)

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Year 2017 | Last 30 days

680 users | 60 users

975 topics | 80 topics

90% of the topics are answered

274k page views | 48k

132k anonymous page views | 29k

Time to first response: < 12 hrs for week days

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Page views in 2017

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Slicer Enabled Research

  • ~1050 citations

Thanks to Andras Lasso

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Slicer Extensions

$ git clone git://github.com/Slicer/ExtensionsIndex

$ cd ExtensionsIndex�$ for b in $(git branch -r | ack origin/4) master; do git checkout $b > /dev/null 2>&1; echo -n "$b "; ls -1 | ack s4ext | wc -l; done

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Slicer 4.8 Highlights

  • Simpler Data module integrating the Subject Hierarchy.�
  • Segmentations module improvements including addition of new effects like Grow from seeds, Fill between slices, Surface cut, Mask Volume, Watershed, Fast marching and Flood Filling.�
  • Improvements to slice viewers including better crosshair usability and support for slice model projection.�
  • Support for Volumetric Meshes.�
  • DICOM support improvements including supports for definition of semantic meanings and faster imports.�
  • Transforms module improvements including support for interactively updating transform in the 3D view and visualization of displacements of individual points.�
  • Support for fast and interactive plotting using VTK Charts.

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Slicer 4.8: Summary, Highlights and Changelog

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https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicer-4-8-summary-highlights-and-changelog

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Next Release: Slicer 5.0

  • Transition to Qt5 �
  • Transition to VTK9�
  • Support for C++11��

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What's Next for 2018?

  • Quarterly release�
  • Slicer + OpenVR�
  • Slicer Custom Application Template�
  • Slicer documentation on ReadTheDocs�
  • In Progress:
    • Transition to Python 3
    • Transition to GitHub only
    • Migrate extension manager to Girder
    • Integrate with the “cloud”:
      • integrate with JupyterLab and other data management&processing platforms
      • Integrate with IPFS
      • ...�

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Thanks: Questions ?

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Notes

  • Following Andras demo:
    • Improve DICOM browser to show first slice as soon as available => https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4490
    • Improve “DICOM Repair” to apply repair to all data files => https://issues.slicer.org/view.php?id=4491
    • Which feature to remove for Slicer 5.0 (SceneView?, Light box ? )
  • Usage tracking: use Google Analytics? https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/
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