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Slicer Custom App Template

Key Investigators

• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (Kitware)
• Tristan Watts-Willis (Verdure Imagine)
• Tamas Ungi (Queen’s University)
• Andras Lasso (Queen’s University)

Project Description

SlicerCustomAppTemplate is a starting point for creating a custom 3D Slicer-based application. 3D Slicer have been used to develop research and commercial applications by customizing GUI, removing unnecessary modules, and adding custom functionality.

Objective

1. Provide example of a custom application based on Slicer

Approach and Plan

1. Test existing Slicer customization options
2. Provide examples/tutorials on how to use them
3. Fix any issues we run into

Progress and Next Steps

• Identified issue related to CustomApp versioning and working on a fix

• Finalizing topic to improve both KitwareMedical/SlicerCustomAppTemplate and Slicer/Slicer
  • cookiecutter learned new parameters: app_name, app_version_major, app_version_minor, app_version_patch and app_description_summary
  • introduced file slicer-application-properties.cmake now required in each application. For example:
    • Slicer/Application/SlicerApp/slicer-application-properties.cmake
    • CustomApp/App1/slicer-application-properties.cmake
    • CustomApp/App2/slicer-application-properties.cmake

• Improved SlicerCustomAppTemplate to support packaging of Superbuild based extension

• Fixed openigtlink/SlicerOpenIGTLink to support integration in Custom application.

• Next steps:
  • Move qSlicerMainWindow, qSlicerAboutDialog into Slicer/Base/QtApp for easier re-use
  • Submit pull request to fix openigtlink/SlicerOpenIGTLink

Illustrations

Background and References

• Existing project to create custom Slicer apps: https://github.com/KitwareMedical/SlicerCustomAppTemplate