  In this work, we developed and evaluated a novel pipeline consisting of two
landmark-based field aperture generation approaches for WBRT treatment
planning; they are fully automated and customizable. The automation pipeline is
beneficial for both clinicians and patients, where we can reduce clinician
workload and reduce treatment planning time. The customizability of the field
aperture design addresses different clinical requirements and allows the
personalized design to become feasible. The performance results regarding
quantitative and qualitative evaluations demonstrated that our plans were
comparable with the original clinical plans. This technique has been deployed
as part of a fully automated treatment planning tool for whole-brain cancer and
could be translated to other treatment sites in the future.
