Help and Support

[thompson318]

If you're looking for help with a specific SciKit-Surgery library please create an issue in that library's repository. However, if you're looking for more general help with SciKit-Surgery, feel free to post your questions here.

[rohang1411]

I was wondering if we can use multiple aruco tags for a single model to improve the accuracy of overlay. Is that possible?

[thompson318]

SciKit-SurgeryArUcoTracker allows you to define multiple tag rigid bodies in the configuration file. Have a look at SciKit-SurgeryBARD for some examples. If you have a look at line 11 of https://github.com/UCL/scikit-surgerybard/blob/master/config/example_config.json you'll see it defines a list of models to track. The "filename" entry points to a file that defines the 3D geometry of the marker pattern, see https://github.com/UCL/scikit-surgerybard/blob/master/data/reference.txt. Each line has the tag ID, then the marker centre and the 4 marker corners. You can find the corresponding marker pattern here

[mxochicale]

Support development using macOS runners with Apple M1 silicon

From recent discussions in our technical meetings, we would like to integrate GitHub-hosted macOS runners with Apple M1 silicon to CIs. Such option will be addressed by github team on Q3 2023 – Jul-Sep (github/roadmap#528 and see GitHub public roadmap). Others options like https://cirrus-ci.org/ might also address such support but we need to take into account maintenance and migrating ci to a new service. So, I guess a good software practice is to keep all CI under one place, i.e. github actions, but feel free to comment if there are other alternatives.

[thompson318]

Thanks for documenting. Ideally we can wait to Q3 and use github actions.

[mxochicale]

Roadmap in GitHub Projects (public beta)

Last nov 2022, Github team announced private beta for roadmap. I think such feature will be useful to have better management of timelines of the library. Currently it is private and few projects have access to it. We might like to sign up SciKit-Surgery in the waitlist. See blog for further details and discussion of the community https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39766.