Ron Kikinis, MD Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School How to Work With NA-MIC Ron Kikinis, MD Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Robert Greenes Distinguished Director of Biomedical Informatics Founding Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Principal Investigator, National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (a National Center for Biomedical Computing, part of the Roadmap Initiative), and Neuroimage Analysis Center (a NCRR National Resource Center) Research Director, Image Guided Therapy Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Software Architecture 3D Slicer, VTK, ITK, TK/TCL, Qt (in the works), Python, others: Interoperation CMAKE, CTEST, CDASH, SVN: Software engineering methodology Web-based (60+ contributors) Native compilers Extensions: easy “on-ramp” for new developers Picture courtesy Will Schroeder

Open Community Process Participation from Multiple institutions Different disciplines Open to all: academia, industry, government, international Twice a year working weeks called project weeks Focused workshops (DTI, IGT) Picture courtesy Sonia Pujol

Collaborations

Project Week

How to Contribute 2010 Developer decision tree Integration options Extensions

Developer Decision Tree Working on the Slicer Core? Focus on Qt Transition Working on a Module? Build it as an Extension Command Line Module? Develop and Test with Slicer3.6 GUI Project with Deadlines in 2010? Develop with KWWidgets for 3.6.X Keep your Logic and MRML Distinct from the GUI Ongoing Support will be Provided Longer-Term Project that Needs a Custom GUI? Start Learning Qt Implement Logic and MRML with Slicer3 Expect to have Usable Slicer4 Alphas in late 2010 Slide courtesy Steve Pieper

Integration Options Slide courtesy Steve Pieper

Extensions Distribution Slide courtesy Steve Pieper

Tutorials

Acknowledgments National Alliance for Medical Image Computing NIH U54EB005149 Neuroimage Analysis Center NIH P41RR013218 Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital