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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique in structural biology and drug discovery, enabling the study of biomolecules at high resolution. Significant advancements by structural biologists using cryo-EM have led to the…

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Accurately measuring the size, morphology, and structure of nanoparticles is very important, because they are strongly dependent on their properties for many applications. In this paper, we present a deep-learning based method for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-29 Claudius Zelenka , Marius Kamp , Kolja Strohm , Akram Kadoura , Jacob Johny , Reinhard Koch , Lorenz Kienle

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a cornerstone of structural biology, enabling near-atomic resolution analysis of macromolecules through advanced computational methods. However, the development of cryo-EM…

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Particle picking is currently a critical step in the cryo-EM single particle reconstruction pipeline. Despite extensive work on this problem, for many data sets it is still challenging, especially for low SNR micrographs. We present the KLT…

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Motivated by the task of 2-D classification in single particle reconstruction by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), we consider the problem of heterogeneous multireference alignment of images. In this problem, the goal is to estimate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-03 Chao Ma , Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Fred Sigworth , Amit Singer

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an extremely powerful method for resolving structural details of large biomolecular complexes. However, challenging problems in single-particle methods remain open because of (1) the low…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-12 Shengnan Lyu , Christian Wülker , Yuqing Pan , Amitesh S. Jayaraman , Jianhao Zheng , Yilin Cai , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Single particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging technique capable of recovering the high-resolution 3-D structure of biological macromolecules from many noisy and randomly oriented projection images. One notable…

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Recent breakthroughs in high-resolution imaging of biomolecules in solution with cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have unlocked new doors for the reconstruction of molecular volumes, thereby promising further advances in biology,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-27 Claire Donnat , Axel Levy , Frederic Poitevin , Ellen Zhong , Nina Miolane

Cellular Electron Cryotomography (CryoET) offers the ability to look inside cells and observe macromolecules frozen in action. A primary challenge for this technique is identifying and extracting the molecular components within the crowded…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-04 Muyuan Chen , Wei Dai , Ying Sun , Darius Jonasch , Cynthia Y He , Michael F. Schmid , Wah Chiu , Steven J Ludtke

Electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) produces three-dimensional (3D) maps of the electrostatic potential of biological macromolecules, including proteins. Along with knowledge about the imaged molecules, cryo-EM maps allow de novo atomic…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized experimental protein structure determination. Despite advances in high resolution reconstruction, a majority of cryo-EM experiments provide either a single state of the studied…

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Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is an increasingly popular method for determining the 3-D structure of macromolecules from noisy 2-D images of single macromolecules whose orientations and positions are random and unknown. One…

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Automated and semi-automated techniques in biomedical electron microscopy (EM) enable the acquisition of large datasets at a high rate. Segmentation methods are therefore essential to analyze and interpret these large volumes of data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Anusha Aswath , Ahmad Alsahaf , Ben N. G. Giepmans , George Azzopardi

Analysis of microscope images is a tedious work which requires patience and time, usually done manually by the microscopist after data collection. Here we introduce an approach of automatic image analysis, which is based on locally applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Benedykt R. Jany , Arkadiusz Janas , Franciszek Krok

Automatic photo cropping is an important tool for improving visual quality of digital photos without resorting to tedious manual selection. Traditionally, photo cropping is accomplished by determining the best proposal window through visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Yi-Ling Chen , Tzu-Wei Huang , Kai-Han Chang , Yu-Chen Tsai , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Bing-Yu Chen

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Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Gabriel Ducrocq , Lukas Grunewald , Sebastian Westenhoff , Fredrik Lindsten

Characterizing crystal structures and interfaces down to the atomic level is an important step for designing advanced materials. Modern electron microscopy routinely achieves atomic resolution and is capable to resolve complex arrangements…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-07 Andreas Leitherer , Byung Chul Yeo , Christian H. Liebscher , Luca M. Ghiringhelli

The nanoparticle size and distribution information in the SEM images of silicon crystals are generally counted by manual methods. The realization of automatic machine recognition is significant in materials science. This paper proposed a…

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Single-beam scanning electron microscopes (SEM) are widely used to acquire massive data sets for biomedical study, material analysis, and fabrication inspection. Datasets are typically acquired with uniform acquisition: applying the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Lu Mi , Hao Wang , Yaron Meirovitch , Richard Schalek , Srinivas C. Turaga , Jeff W. Lichtman , Aravinthan D. T. Samuel , Nir Shavit