SlicerSALT: Shape AnaLysis Toolbox

Shape Med Imaging (2018). 2018 Sep:11167:65-72. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-04747-4_6. Epub 2018 Nov 23.

Abstract

SlicerSALT is an open-source platform for disseminating state-of-the-art methods for performing statistical shape analysis. These methods are developed as 3D Slicer extensions to take advantage of its powerful underlying libraries. SlicerSALT itself is a heavily customized 3D Slicer package that is designed to be easy to use for shape analysis researchers. The packaged methods include powerful techniques for creating and visualizing shape representations as well as performing various types of analysis.

Keywords: Shape analysis; Software; Statistics.