Learning to Estimate Without Bias

Diskin, Tzvi; Eldar, Yonina C.; Wiesel, Ami

doi:10.1109/tsp.2023.3284372

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“…the true bias decreases as (1∕N r ). 13 As suggested by Diskin et al, 14 we can promote properties similar to an efficient estimator in the trained NN by penalizing the squared bias in addition to the MSE. This leads to the weighted "bias-constrained error" 14 loss…”

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Bias‐reduced neural networks for parameter estimation in quantitative MRI

Mao,

Flassbeck,

Assländer

2024

Magnetic Resonance in Med

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PurposeTo develop neural network (NN)‐based quantitative MRI parameter estimators with minimal bias and a variance close to the Cramér–Rao bound.Theory and MethodsWe generalize the mean squared error loss to control the bias and variance of the NN's estimates, which involves averaging over multiple noise realizations of the same measurements during training. Bias and variance properties of the resulting NNs are studied for two neuroimaging applications.ResultsIn simulations, the proposed strategy reduces the estimates' bias throughout parameter space and achieves a variance close to the Cramér–Rao bound. In vivo, we observe good concordance between parameter maps estimated with the proposed NNs and traditional estimators, such as nonlinear least‐squares fitting, while state‐of‐the‐art NNs show larger deviations.ConclusionThe proposed NNs have greatly reduced bias compared to those trained using the mean squared error and offer significantly improved computational efficiency over traditional estimators with comparable or better accuracy.

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