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Customize Slicer

The two main ways to customize Slicer is through the Application Settings and the Extension Manager

Application Settings

The Application settings contains settings that control Slicer Appearance and performance

Add Orientation Marker

It is convenient to display the human orientation marker in the viewers at startup.

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the Orientation marker makes it much easier to understand the orientational of the orthogonal slices or the current view in the 3D viewer

To set the Slice View defaults:

  1. In the Edit menu, select "Application Settings"
  2. In the dialog window, select the "Views" tab
  3. Use the following settings:

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When you make changes to the default settings, Slicer requires that you restart the app. Click OK to restart when prompted

Modify the Toolbar

The toolbar is broken down into panels, which can be shown/hidden by right-clicking on a blank area of the toolbar to bring up a contextual menu:

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The favorites panel, to the right of the arrows, can be modified in the Application settings:Modules tab

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Install Extensions

Extensions are customized modules to handle a varied specialized tasks.

For the Slicer exercises, we will use the following extensions

  1. SegmentEditorExtraEffects
  2. TotalSegmentator
  3. LungCTAnalyzer
  4. HDBrainExtraion
  5. PyTorch

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Add extensions as follows

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  1. Click on the Extension Manager toolbar button to bring up the Manager.
  2. On the Side bar, Select a Category, like "Segmentation"
  3. Find Extension of interest, like "SegmentEditorExtraEffects"
  4. Click the Install Button
  5. Repeat
  6. When you are finished installing extensions, restart Slicer.

Pro-Tip: If the extension manager isn't working

Try Clicking on the "Check for Updates" button and then on "Try again", and see if that fixes things.