JulianA.jl -- A Julia package for radiotherapy

TL;DR

JulianA.jl is a Julia package designed to enhance radiotherapy software by providing a modular, flexible, and open-source tool that integrates with various treatment planning systems to improve algorithm development and treatment planning.

Contribution

The paper introduces JulianA.jl, a novel Julia package that offers a unified, adaptable platform for radiotherapy algorithm development and workflow integration.

Findings

Supports integration with any treatment planning system

Enables efficient development of radiotherapy algorithms

Showcases automatic treatment planning capabilities

Abstract

The importance of computers is continually increasing in radiotherapy. Efficient algorithms, implementations and the ability to leverage advancements in computer science are crucial to improve cancer care even further and deliver the best treatment to each patient. Yet, the software landscape for radiotherapy is fragmented into proprietary systems that do not share a common interface. Further, the radiotherapy community does not have access to the vast possibilities offered by modern programming languages and their ecosystem of libraries yet. We present JulianA.jl, a novel Julia package for radiotherapy. It aims to provide a modular and flexible foundation for the development and efficient implementation of algorithms and workflows for radiotherapy researchers and clinicians. JulianA.jl can be interfaced with any scriptable treatment planning system, be it commercial, open source or in-house developed. This article highlights our design choices and showcases the package's simplicity and powerful automatic treatment planning capabilities.