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Slicer 5.0 roadmap

Key Investigators

• Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin (Kitware Inc., USA)
• Andras Lasso (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Steve Pieper (Isomics Inc., USA)
• Csaba Pinter (Queen’s University, Canada)
• Andrey Fedorov (BWH)

Project Description

Draft Slicer 5.0 roadmap

Objective

1. Update list of Slicer 5.0 changes
2. Collect wishes on this wiki page

Approach and Plan

1. Meet with core developer
2. Collect feedback from the community

Progress and Next Steps

Items to be discussed: (please add anything that you would like us to consider)

• Update to Python3
• Migrate documentation to ReadTheDocs
• Widgets rework (point list, curve, angle, plane)
• Mouse modes (make it easier to define new mouse modes and switch between them; e.g., put window width/level setting in a separate mouse mode, add more built-in mouse modes, …)
• Built-in 4D data support (Sequences extension)
• Move towards LPS coordinate system (at least change default read/write format for all nodes)
• Internationalization
• Switch to unicode
• Scene views rework: make simpler and more robust
• Lightbox view: can we remove?
• Make Slicer core smaller: are there still components that can be moved out to extensions?

Illustrations

Background and References

• https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/Developers/Tutorials/MigrationGuide/Slicer50