SlicerArduino: A Bridge between Medical Imaging Platform and Microcontroller.

ABSTRACT: Interaction between medical image platform and external environment is a desirable feature in several clinical, research, and educational scenarios. In this work, the integration between 3D Slicer package and Arduino board is introduced, enabling a simple and useful communication between the two software/hardware platforms. The open source extension, programmed in Python language, manages the connection process and offers a communication layer accessible from any point of the medical image suite infrastructure. Deep integration with 3D Slicer code environment is provided and a basic input-output mechanism accessible via GUI is also made available. To test the proposed extension, two exemplary use cases were implemented: (1) INPUT data to 3D Slicer, to navigate on basis of data detected by

SUBMITTER: Zaffino P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552646 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature