Towards comparable MRI: The role of open-source software and community standards

This talk was presented at the Quantitative MRI for In Vivo Histology From Six Perspectives session during OHBM 2022, Glasgow, UK. Details about the session are available here.

To introduce qMRI, I used jellybeans, the beanboozled challenge and some interesting food engineering studies! Looks like qMRI does a good job for soft confections, but when it comes to soft tissue, we found ourselves in a maze of variability. 

If qMRI is a collection of amazing methods trapped in a maze of variability, how do we find our way out? I argue that open-source software, community data standards, vendor-neutral pulse sequences and reproducible workflows can show us the way forward.