Comparative REview of Algorithm and Method for proton-density fat fraction (PDFF) quantification (CREAM_PDFF)

The CREAM_PDFF is a multi-language toolbox developed to evaluate state-of-the art open source algorithms for fat-water separation.

Reference	Referred as	Method	Code	2D/3D	Spectrum choice	Echo spacing	Code acceleration	Year	Code repository (If not specified, it is on github.com)
Boehm et al. ⁸	VLGCA	Graph-cut	Matlab	2D	Free	Uniform	Parallel computing	2021	gitlab.com/christofboehm/fieldmap-graph-cut
Bydder et al. ⁷	IDEAL-CE	IDEAL	Matlab	3D	Model Constrained	Free	GPU computing	2020	marcsous/pdff
Andersson et al. ⁶	MSGCA-A	Graph-cut	Matlab	3D	Free	Uniform	No	2018	Snubben-B/FW-Recon-Spatial-Smoothing
Cui et al.⁵	GOOSE	Graph-cut	Matlab	2D	Fixed¹	Uniform / Free	No	2015	GOOSE code repository
Berglund et al.⁴	MSGCA-B	Graph-cut	Python	3D	Free	Uniform	No	2017	bretglun/fwqpbo
Liu˙ et al. ³	B0-NICE	Region-based	Matlab	3D	Fixed²	Uniform	No	2015	B0-NICE code repository
Berglund et al.²	Fatty-Riot-GC	Graph-cut	Matlab	3D	Free	Uniform	No	2012	welcheb/fw_i3cm1i_3pluspoint_berglund_QPBO welcheb/FattyRiot
Hernando et al. ¹	Hernando-GC	Graph-cut	Matlab	2D	Free	Uniform / Free	No	2012	Hernando-GC code repository

¹ ISMRM challenge spectrum

² own spectrum

Publication

This open-source is described in the following abstract :

Daudé P, Kober F, Confort-Gouny S, Bernard M, Rapacchi S. Comparative Review of Algorithm and Method for proton-density fat fraction (PDFF) quantification. Proceedings [Internet]. Virtual Meeting; 2021. p. Poster. Available from: https://mritogether.github.io/files/abstracts/daude.pdf

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