README.md

Introduction

This module is designed to enable direct communication between ROS 2 and 3D Slicer.

The documentation is available on readthedocs: https://slicer-ros2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Please check out this video below for an overview of some of the features and use-cases.

Acknowledgement

This project is supported by:

• The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R01EB020667, and 3R01EB020667-05S1 (MPI: Tokuda, Krieger, Leonard, and Fuge). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
• The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

References

• 3D Slicer Official Page, https://www.slicer.org/
• ROS - Robot Operating System, https://ros.org/
• ROS for Medical Robotics, https://rosmed.github.io/
• Presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBgR6te3Gs
• Workshops: ISMR 2023 - https://rosmed.github.io/ismr2023/index, ISMR 2024 - https://rosmed.github.io/ismr2024/index
• Introductory publication: Connolly L, Deguet A, Leonard S, Tokuda J, Ungi T, Krieger A, Kazanzides P, Mousavi P, Fichtinger G, Taylor RH. Bridging 3D Slicer and ROS2 for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions. Sensors (Basel). 2022 Jul 17;22(14):5336. doi: 10.3390/s22145336. PMID: 35891016; PMCID: PMC9324680.
• Most-recent publication: Connolly L, Kumar AS, Mehta KK, Al-Zogbi L, Kazanzides P, Mousavi P, Fichtinger G, Krieger A, Tokuda J, Taylor RH, Leonard S, Deguet A. SlicerROS2: A Research and Development Module for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions. IEEE Trans Med Robot Bionics. 2024 Nov;6(4):1334-1344. doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2024.3464683. [PMID: To be added]; [PMCID: To be added].

If you use SlicerROS2 and find it helpful for your research, please use the 2024 publication for citation:

@article{connolly2024slicerros2,
  title={SlicerROS2: A Research and Development Module for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions},
  author={Connolly, Laura and Kumar, Aravind S and Mehta, Kapi Ketan and Al-Zogbi, Lidia and Kazanzides, Peter and Mousavi, Parvin and Fichtinger, Gabor and Krieger, Axel and Tokuda, Junichi and Taylor, Russell H and others},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics},
  year={2024},
  publisher={IEEE}
}