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The Cryo-EM 3D particle reconstruction is essential for identifying protein and uncover the biological mechanism of the macro-molecules. In this paper, we use Kam method for reconstruction. Kam method is \textit{ab-initio}, and it assumes…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-21 Yin Xian

Single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) allows for structures of proteins and protein complexes to be determined from images of non-crystalline specimens. Cryo-EM data analysis requires electron microscope images of randomly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-23 Jianhua Zhao , Marcus A. Brubaker , Samir Benlekbir , John L. Rubinstein

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Roy R. Lederman , Amit Singer

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Kaishva Chintan Shah , Virajith Boddapati , Karthik S. Gurumoorthy , Sandip Kaledhonkar , Ajit Rajwade

Cryo-EM is an increasingly popular method for determining the atomic resolution 3D structure of macromolecular complexes (eg, proteins) from noisy 2D images captured by an electron microscope. The computational task is to reconstruct the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Shayan Shekarforoush , David B. Lindell , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet

We introduce the EMC algorithm for reconstructing a particle's 3D diffraction intensity from very many photon shot-noise limited 2D measurements, when the particle orientation in each measurement is unknown. The algorithm combines a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-03-04 Duane Ne-Te Loh , Veit Elser

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

Laser flash melting and revitrification experiments have recently improved the time resolution of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to the microsecond timescale, making it fast enough to observe many of the protein motions that are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-19 Wyatt A. Curtis , Constantin R. Krüger , Axel P. Tracol Gavard , Jakub Wenz , Marcel Drabbels , Ulrich J. Lorenz

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides images from different copies of the same biomolecule in arbitrary orientations. Here, we present an end-to-end unsupervised approach that learns individual particle orientations from cryo-EM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Youssef S. G. Nashed , Frederic Poitevin , Harshit Gupta , Geoffrey Woollard , Michael Kagan , Chuck Yoon , Daniel Ratner

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently joined X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method to resolve biological macromolecules. In a cryo-EM experiment, the microscope produces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , William Leeb , Eitan Levin , Amit Singer

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique for determining the structure of proteins and other macromolecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. In single particle cryo-EM, the central problem is to reconstruct the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-18 Ellen D. Zhong , Tristan Bepler , Joseph H. Davis , Bonnie Berger

Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) enables high-resolution imaging of biomolecules, but structural heterogeneity remains a major challenge in 3D reconstruction. Traditional methods assume a discrete set of conformations, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Diego Sanchez Espinosa , Erik H Thiede , Yunan Yang

High-fidelity electron microscopy simulations required for quantitative crystal structure refinements face a fundamental challenge: while physical interactions are well-described theoretically, real-world experimental effects are…

In cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a microscope generates a top view of a sample of randomly-oriented copies of a molecule. The problem of single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-EM is to use the resulting set of noisy 2D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Gene Katsevich , Alexander Katsevich , Amit Singer

The central problem in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is to recover the 3D structure from noisy 2D projection images which requires estimating the missing projection angles (poses). Recent methods attempted to solve the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Lin Yao , Ruihan Xu , Zhifeng Gao , Guolin Ke , Yuhang Wang

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique for determining high-resolution 3D biomolecular structures from imaging data. Its unique ability to capture structural variability has spurred the development of heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Minkyu Jeon , Rishwanth Raghu , Miro Astore , Geoffrey Woollard , Ryan Feathers , Alkin Kaz , Sonya M. Hanson , Pilar Cossio , Ellen D. Zhong

In recent years, an abundance of new molecular structures have been elucidated using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), largely due to advances in hardware technology and data processing techniques. Owing to these new exciting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Tamir Bendory , Alberto Bartesaghi , Amit Singer

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-30 Andy Zhang , Oscar Mickelin , Joe Kileel , Eric J. Verbeke , Nicholas F. Marshall , Marc Aurèle Gilles , Amit Singer

Numerical simulation of the complex plasma dynamics associated with high power, high frequency microwave breakdown at high pressures, leading to the formation of filamentary plasma structures such as self-organized plasma arrays, is a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Pratik Ghosh , Bhaskar Chaudhury

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a key technology to determine the structure of proteins, particularly large protein complexes and assemblies in recent years. A key challenge in cryo-EM data analysis is to automatically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-04 Nabin Giri , Raj S. Roy , Jianlin Cheng