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We study a class of orbit recovery problems in which we observe independent copies of an unknown element of $\mathbb{R}^p$, each linearly acted upon by a random element of some group (such as $\mathbb{Z}/p$ or $\mathrm{SO}(3)$) and then…

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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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-09 Kiarash Jamali , Dari Kimanius , Sjors H. W. Scheres

Cryogenic Electron Tomography (CryoET) is a useful imaging technology in structural biology that is hindered by its need for manual annotations, especially in particle picking. Recent works have endeavored to remedy this issue with few-shot…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-10 Yizhou Zhao , Hengwei Bian , Michael Mu , Mostofa R. Uddin , Zhenyang Li , Xiang Li , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

The aim of this paper is to give an introductory review of the cryoelectron microscopy as a complex data source for the most of the system biology branches, including the most perspective non-local approaches known as "localomics" and…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-20 Oleg V. Gradov , Margaret A. Gradova

The living body is composed of innumerable fine and complex structures and although these structures have been studied in the past, a vast amount of information pertaining to them still remains unknown. When attempting to observe these…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Raku Son , Kenji Yamazawa , Akiko Oguchi , Mitsuo Suga , Masaru Tamura , Yasuhiro Murakawa , Satoshi Kume

The number of noisy images required for molecular reconstruction in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is governed by the autocorrelations of the observed, randomly-oriented, noisy projection images. In this work, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Tamir Bendory , Yuehaw Khoo , Joe Kileel , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables structural characterization of biomolecules under near-native conditions. Existing approaches for interpreting the resulting three-dimensional volumes are computationally expensive and have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-28 Chengxuan Li , August George , Reece Neff , Doo Nam Kim , Trevor Moser , Kate Baldwin , Malio Nelson , Arsam Firoozfar , James E Evans , Margaret S Cheung

We revisit the topic of common lines between projection images in single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). We derive a novel low-rank constraint on a certain $2n \times n$ matrix storing properly-scaled basis vectors for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Tommi Muller , Adriana L. Duncan , Eric J. Verbeke , Joe Kileel

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

Advances in imagery at atomic and near-atomic resolution, such as cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), have led to an influx of high resolution images of proteins and other macromolecular structures to data banks worldwide. Producing a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-06 Nathan Ranno , Dong Si

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful technique for determining the three-dimensional structures of biological molecules at near-atomic resolution. However, reconstructing helical assemblies presents unique challenges…

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High-resolution structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) requires the accurate fitting of an atomic model into an experimental density map. Traditional refinement pipelines such as Phenix.real_space_refine and Rosetta…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-10 Fuyao Huang , Xiaozhu Yu , Kui Xu , Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang

High-fidelity numerical methods that model the physical layout of a device are essential for the design of many technologies. For methods that characterize electromagnetic effects, these numerical methods are referred to as computational…

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

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

We propose a framework to jointly determine the deformation parameters and reconstruct the unknown volume in electron cryotomography (CryoET). CryoET aims to reconstruct three-dimensional biological samples from two-dimensional projections.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Valentin Debarnot , Sidharth Gupta , Konik Kothari , Ivan Dokmanic

Cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET) is a new 3D imaging technique with unprecedented potential for resolving submicron structural detail. Existing volume visualization methods, however, cannot cope with its very low signal-to-noise ratio. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Ngan Nguyen , Ciril Bohak , Dominik Engel , Peter Mindek , Ondřej Strnad , Peter Wonka , Sai Li , Timo Ropinski , Ivan Viola

A common task in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data processing is to compare three-dimensional density maps of macromolecules. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for aligning three-dimensional density maps that exploits common…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Yael Harpaz , Yoel Shkolnisky

Cryogenic electron microscopy is widely used in structural biology, but its resolution is often limited by the dynamics of the macromolecule. Here, we developed a refinement protocol based on Gaussian mixture models that integrates particle…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-31 Muyuan Chen , Michael F. Schmid , Wah Chiu

Low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM) is a surface science method that works primarily in the UHV environment. It provides information complementary to the other established techniques: it extends the limited view of scanning probe…

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