Pylinac: Image analysis for routine quality assurance in radiotherapy

Abstract

Pylinac is a Python library that analyzes routine quality assurance images generated by devices in the radiotherapy treatment domain. It contains multiple independent modules that map to different quality assurance tasks and will ingest and analyze the images for common metrics as required by the medical physics society. The library is designed to be concise and easy to use as the target audience is not developers. Thus, most workflows can be implemented in a few lines of code. At the same time, the library is modular and allows for easy extension via plugins and configuration settings. Comprehensive documentation is available with usage examples and algorithm explanations.