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Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a leading technology to resolve the structure of molecules. Early in the process, the user detects potential particle images in the raw data. Typically, there are many false detections…

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A major challenge in single particle reconstruction from cryo-electron microscopy is to establish a reliable ab-initio three-dimensional model using two-dimensional projection images with unknown orientations. Common-lines based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Lanhui Wang , Amit Singer , Zaiwen Wen

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) emerges as a pivotal technology for determining the architecture of cells, viruses, and protein assemblies at near-atomic resolution. Traditional particle picking, a key step in cryo-EM, struggles with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-17 Chentianye Xu , Xueying Zhan , Min Xu

Accurate pose estimation and shift correction are key challenges in cryo-EM due to the very low SNR, which directly impacts the fidelity of 3D reconstructions. We present an approach for pose estimation in cryo-EM that leverages…

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Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstructs the three-dimensional (3D) structure of bio-molecules from a large set of 2D projection images with random and unknown orientations. A crucial step in the single-particle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Mona Zehni , Laurène Donati , Emmanuel Soubies , Zhizhen J. Zhao , Michael Unser

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allows for the high-resolution reconstruction of 3D structures of proteins and other biomolecules. Successful reconstruction of both shape and movement greatly helps understand the fundamental processes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xinhang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yifan Qin , Hao Li , Jiakai Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

Understanding protein flexibility and its dynamic interactions with other molecules is essential for studying protein function. Although cryogenic electron microscopy(cryo-EM) provides an opportunity to observe macromolecular dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Bintao He , Yiran Cheng , Hongjia Li , Xiang Gao , Xin Gao , Fa Zhang , Renmin Han

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful imaging technique for reconstructing three-dimensional molecular structures from noisy tomographic projection images of randomly oriented particles. We introduce a new data fusion framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Joe Kileel , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer , Sheng Xu

We describe a new generation of algorithms capable of mapping the structure and conformations of macromolecules and their complexes from large ensembles of heterogeneous snapshots, and demonstrate the feasibility of determining both…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 P. Schwander , R. Fung , A. Ourmazd

Resolving the structural variability of proteins is often key to understanding the structure-function relationship of those macromolecular machines. Single particle analysis using Cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM), combined with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Muyuan Chen , Bogdan Toader , Roy Lederman

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is capable of producing reconstructed 3D images of biomolecules at near-atomic resolution. As such, it represents one of the most promising imaging techniques in structural biology. However, raw cryo-EM…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-25 Nina Miolane , Frédéric Poitevin , Yee-Ting Li , Susan Holmes

Single-particle cryo-EM has transformed structural biology but still faces challenges in resolving conformational heterogeneity at atomic resolution. Existing cryo-EM heterogeneity analysis methods either lack atomic details or tend to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Chengwei Zhang , Shimian Li , Yihao Niu , Zhen Zhu , Sihao Yuan , Sirui Liu , Yi Qin Gao

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging modality that provides unique insights into the dynamics of proteins and other building blocks of life. The algorithmic challenge of jointly estimating the poses, 3D structure, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Axel Levy , Gordon Wetzstein , Julien Martel , Frederic Poitevin , Ellen D. Zhong

Single-Particle Reconstruction (SPR) in Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) is the task of estimating the 3D structure of a molecule from a set of noisy 2D projections, taken from unknown viewing directions. Many algorithms for SPR start…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Eitan Levin , Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Joe Kileel , Amit Singer

We presented a new 3D refinement method for Cryo-EM single particle analysis which can improve the resolution of final electron density map in this paper. We proposed to enforce both sparsity and smoothness to improve the regularity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Zhenwei Luo

A main task in cryo-electron microscopy single particle reconstruction is to find a three-dimensional model of a molecule given a set of its randomly oriented and positioned noisy projection-images. In this work, we propose an algorithm for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Adi Shasha Geva , Yoel Shkolnisky

Discovering the 3D atomic structure of molecules such as proteins and viruses is a fundamental research problem in biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising vision-based technique for structure estimation which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Marcus A. Brubaker , Ali Punjani , David J. Fleet

Single-particle cryo-Electron Microscopy (EM) has become a popular technique for determining the structure of challenging biomolecules that are inaccessible to other technologies. Recent advances in automation, both in data collection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Ye Zhou , Amit Moscovich , Tamir Bendory , Alberto Bartesaghi

Determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins and protein complexes at atomic resolution is a fundamental task in structural biology. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been made using "single particle" cryo-electron…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-05 Alex Barnett , Leslie Greengard , Andras Pataki , Marina Spivak

Single particle cryo-electron microscopy has become a critical tool in structural biology over the last decade, able to achieve atomic scale resolution in three dimensional models from hundreds of thousands of (noisy) two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Aaditya V. Rangan , Leslie Greengard