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SegmentationService.highlightSegment animates the selected segment's fill (labelmap) or outline (contour) over 750ms with a requestAnimationFrame loop. Before it starts a highlight it tries to cancel the previous one with if (this.highlightIntervalId) clearInterval(this.highlightIntervalId). That guard never does anything: the loops are requestAnimationFrame loops, not setInterval, and highlightIntervalId is never assigned.

So every segment selection stacks another 750ms loop on top of the ones still running. With a multi-segment SEG, a burst of selections (clicking down the segment list, or jumping between segments) leaves several loops writing styles at once: each frame of each loop calls setStyle, so SEGMENTATION_REPRESENTATION_MODIFIED fires once per running loop per frame, and for contours every finished loop calls resetToGlobalStyle() while newer ones are still animating.

No one filed an upstream issue. This description gives the full failure.

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highlightSegment now keeps a state entry per selected segment (per representation type) instead of a generation counter:

  • Not selected: no entry. Selecting another segment deletes the other entries and resets their temporary style immediately, so a highlight that starts right after reads the segment's real style. This no longer depends on the order in which the browser runs requestAnimationFrame callbacks.
  • Highlighting: the animation runs. Selecting the same segment again continues the running animation instead of starting a new one from the temporary value.
  • Selected: the animation finished; selecting the segment again replays it.
  • An animation loop stops as soon as its entry is no longer current.
  • Viewports showing the same representation type share the segment's style (setStyle gets no viewport id), so they share one animation. A labelmap viewport and a contour viewport of the same segmentation each animate.
  • The contour highlight now resets only its own segment's style when it ends, instead of resetToGlobalStyle(), which cleared every segmentation- and viewport-specific style.
  • highlightIntervalId and its clearInterval are removed: they never applied, since the highlight is a requestAnimationFrame loop.

User-visible change: selecting a new segment stops the previous segment's highlight at once and restores its fill/outline; before, every selection stacked another 750ms animation. Selecting the same segment again within 750ms no longer ends with a jump of its fill back to the default value.

Testing

  1. Open a study with a DICOM SEG (e.g. 1.3.6.1.4.1.14519.5.2.1.256467663913010332776401703474716742458) and load the SEG.
  2. In the segmentation panel, click a segment, then click it again within 750ms.
  3. Before: when the animation ends, the segment's fill drops in one frame from the highlighted value to the default. After: one continuous animation, no drop.
  4. Click segment 1, segment 2, segment 1 quickly: segment 1's fill resets when segment 2 is selected, and its new highlight starts and ends at the default fill.

Measured live on the dev server by recording the segment's fillAlpha every frame while clicking the panel rows: with the previous commit, the repeated click ends with a one-frame drop of 0.83 → 0.50; with this change the largest one-frame drop is 0.04.

Unit tests: cd extensions/cornerstone && npx jest src/services/SegmentationService — 96 of 96 pass (640 of 640 in the extension). The tests under highlightSegment › when highlights overlap use a per-segment style store, so a temporary value read as the next start value is observable. Negative check: against the previous commit, 6 of them fail (same segment twice, segment 1 → 2 → 1 before a frame, contour reset scope, shared-style viewports); against the first commit, the labelmap + contour viewport test also fails.

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  • OS: macOS 15
  • Node version: 24.3.0 (unit tests), 22.17.1 (dev server)
  • Browser: Chrome

This fix is contributed as a donation by UCalgary. Thanks to @wayfarer3130 for directing it upstream to keep the core OHIF code identical between the fork and OHIF.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Highlight animations stop when superseded, preventing outdated animations from changing segment appearance.
    • Reselecting a segment that is already animating or has completed no longer starts an additional animation.
    • When a highlight finishes or is canceled, only the highlighted segment’s style is reset, preserving other segment styles.
    • Highlights are handled consistently across viewports and labelmap or contour representations, including when jumping to a segment’s center.

… rapid selection

highlightSegment cancels the previous highlight with clearInterval, but the
highlight is a requestAnimationFrame loop and highlightIntervalId is never
assigned, so every selection stacked another 750ms animation. Each highlight
now carries a generation; a running loop whose generation is no longer the
current one resets its temporary style and stops on its next frame.

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SegmentationService tracks highlights by segmentation, segment index, and representation type. It stops superseded animations and resets the highlighted segment’s temporary style. Tests cover overlapping highlights, repeated selections, and highlights across viewports and representations.

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Segmentation highlight animations

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track and manage segment highlights
extensions/cornerstone/src/services/SegmentationService/SegmentationService.ts
The service tracks highlights by segmentation, segment index, and representation type. It ends other highlights for a segmentation, avoids restarting an active highlight, and resets styles when a highlight is canceled or completed.
Stop stale animations and validate style resets
extensions/cornerstone/src/services/SegmentationService/SegmentationService.ts, extensions/cornerstone/src/services/SegmentationService/SegmentationService.test.ts
Labelmap and contour animation frames stop when their highlight is no longer current. Completion resets the highlighted segment’s style. Tests cover superseded and repeated highlights, completed highlights, and shared or separate styles across viewports and representations.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: sedghi

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Highlighting a segment may wipe a custom per-segment style, such as fill opacity or outline width, when the highlight ends. Confirm whether this happens, and restore the original style if so, before merging.

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jumpToSegmentCenter without a viewport ID calls highlightSegment once per
viewport. With one service-wide generation, each call superseded the
highlight just started on the previous viewport, so only the last viewport
kept animating. Generations are now kept per viewport.

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🟡 Minor · Do not reset all segmentation styles when a contour animation… · SegmentationService.ts:2066-2071

extensions/cornerstone/src/services/SegmentationService/SegmentationService.ts:2066-2071
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not reset all segmentation styles when a contour animation is superseded.

A newer highlight for the same viewportId makes the stale contour callback reachable. resetToGlobalStyle() then clears all segmentation-specific and viewport-specific overrides. This can remove persistent styles and styles used by another viewport.

Replace the global reset with cleanup scoped to this animation’s { segmentationId, segmentIndex, type: CONTOUR } style entry. Do not use setStyle(..., {}, false): Cornerstone3D 5.10.3 stores an empty override and does not remove the entry. Use the version-supported scoped removal or restoration operation.

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In the stale-generation branch of the contour animation callback, replace
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Review: race conditions in highlightSegment

I reviewed commit d981e16. The generation counter stops the old animation loops. Two race conditions remain.

1. A second highlight on the same segment starts from the wrong value

SegmentationService.ts:1987

  • On each frame, the running animation writes a temporary fillAlpha for the segment.
  • A second highlightSegment call on the same segment reads that temporary value (for example 0.85) as its start value.
  • The new animation goes 0.85 → 1 → 0.85. At the end, resetStyle() sets the fill back to the real default (for example 0.5). The user sees a jump.
  • This occurs when the user clicks the same segment again within 750 ms. It also occurs for segment 1 → segment 2 → segment 1 before the browser draws a frame, for example with fast keyboard navigation.

The generation counter stops the old loop. The generation counter does not give the new loop the correct start value.

2. The panel click cancels its own highlights when more than one viewport shows the segmentation

SegmentationService.ts:1636

  • The panel click calls jumpToSegmentNext with no viewport ID. jumpToSegmentNext calls highlightSegment one time for each viewport.
  • Each call increments _highlightGeneration. Only the animation of the last viewport continues.
  • With one representation type, all viewports share the style, because setStyle gets no viewport ID. Thus the problem is usually not visible.
  • If the segmentation is a Labelmap in one viewport and a Contour in another viewport, one viewport does not animate. A stale labelmap loop resets its style, and a stale contour loop calls resetToGlobalStyle(). Before this change, both animations ran.

The segment 1 → segment 2 → segment 1 sequence

The old loop of segment 1 does not reset the new loop of segment 1 in the current code. The browser runs requestAnimationFrame callbacks in the order of the requests. The old loop runs first in the frame and resets the style. Then the new loop writes its value in the same frame, so the reset is not visible. The code depends on this order, but no comment or test records the order.

Recommended fix: a state map for each segment

Replace the single global generation with a state for each segment:

  • Keep the segmentationId of the segmentation that has the highlight.
  • Keep a map (a zustand store or a Map) from the segment index to a state. The map has these states:
    • Not selected: the map has no entry for the segment. Delete the entry. Do not store a value for an unselected segment.
    • Highlighting: the animation runs. A new select request does not start a new animation. The request can continue the current animation. The entry keeps the original style, so the start value is always correct.
    • Selected: the animation is complete, and the segment shows as selected.
  • An animation loop stops when the entry of its segment is no longer Highlighting.

This design fixes finding 1, because the entry keeps the original style. It fixes finding 2, because each segment has its own state and the viewports do not cancel each other. It also removes the hidden dependency on the frame order.

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  • Reuse of existing methods: no problems. The change uses the existing easing functions and the cstSegmentation.config.style methods.
  • Comment length: the inline comment at lines 1631–1635 tells the history of the old bug. Move that text to the commit message or to a doc comment on highlightSegment. The highlightIntervalId / clearInterval code above the comment now does nothing.
  • Number of tests: the three new tests are good "the API must do this" tests. No test covers a second highlight on the same segment (finding 1). No test covers a highlight in more than one viewport (finding 2).
  • User specification and code expectations: the PR has no specification. The change stops the earlier highlight when the user selects a new segment. That is a change to what the user sees, and the description does not say so.

The per-viewport generation counter stopped stale animation loops but left
two problems: a second highlight of the same segment read the running
animation's temporary fillAlpha as its start value, so the final reset
jumped back to the real value; and a stale contour loop called
resetToGlobalStyle, clearing every segmentation- and viewport-specific style.

highlightSegment now keeps one entry per selected segment and representation
type. Selecting another segment deletes the other entries and resets their
temporary style at once, so a highlight that starts right after reads the
real style without relying on requestAnimationFrame callback order. Selecting
the segment again while it animates continues the running animation.
Viewports that share a representation type share the segment's style and so
one animation; a labelmap and a contour viewport each animate. Contour
highlights reset only their own segment style.

Removes highlightIntervalId and its clearInterval, which never applied: the
highlight is a requestAnimationFrame loop, not a setInterval.
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Addressed in 7b33ce2, which replaces the generation counter with the per-segment state map you suggested.

  1. Wrong start value on a second highlight of the same segment: fixed. A repeat select while the segment is highlighting continues the running animation. Selecting another segment deletes the entry and resets its temporary style immediately, so a later highlight of segment 1 reads the real fill. Live, with the previous commit, clicking the same segment twice within 750ms ends with a one-frame fill drop of 0.83 → 0.50; with this commit the largest one-frame drop is 0.04.
  2. Panel click cancelling its own highlights across viewports: 1c6da80 (pushed before your review, which was on d981e16) already keyed the generation per viewport. With the state map, viewports with the same representation type share one animation (they share the style), and a labelmap viewport plus a contour viewport each animate. A test covers this; it fails against d981e16.
  3. Frame-order dependency for 1 → 2 → 1: gone. The reset happens when the segment is deselected, not on the stale loop's next frame, and the stale loop only checks whether its entry is still current.

Also:

  • The inline history comment is moved to the commit message.
  • highlightIntervalId / clearInterval are removed.
  • The contour highlight now resets only its own segment's style instead of resetToGlobalStyle().
  • New tests cover a second highlight of the same segment, 1 → 2 → 1 before a frame, a replay after completion, and both multi-viewport cases.
  • The description now states the user-visible change.

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private _resetSegmentHighlightStyle({ segmentationId, segmentIndex, type }: SegmentHighlight) {
cstSegmentation.config.style.setStyle({ segmentationId, segmentIndex, type }, {}, false);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Restore existing segment-specific styles after a highlight.

If a segment has a custom fillAlpha or outlineWidth, this replacement discards that override when the highlight ends. The segment then keeps the inherited style instead of its configured style. Save the original segment-specific override before animation and restore it on cancellation or completion. Do not save only the effective inherited style. Cornerstone supports segment-specific overrides. (cornerstonejs.org)

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Update the highlight animation in SegmentationService to preserve the
segment-specific style overrides before applying the temporary style, then
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override rather than the effective inherited style, so custom fillAlpha and
outlineWidth values remain intact.

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