Initialization and destruction of the ML, module library loading,

Management of ML modules (creation, deletion, hierarchical/inheritance information of ML modules),

Accessing parameter fields of ML modules,

Module persistence: saving/restoring module states,

Setting/getting values of (parameter) field values, names and types,

(Dis)connecting and notifying (parameter) fields,

Requesting, allocating and freeing image data from ML modules,

Managing (setting limits, clearing, querying) the ML memory cache,

Requesting image information from output fields of ML modules(extents, image transformations, voxel sizes, DICOM tag list, etc.), and

Special access to BaseField, DicomTagListField and SoNodeField.