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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) is an increasingly popular method for protein structure determination. However, identifying a sufficient number of particles for analysis (often >100,000) can take months of manual effort. Current…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-17 Tristan Bepler , Andrew Morin , Julia Brasch , Lawrence Shapiro , Alex J. Noble , Bonnie Berger

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

Direct detector device (DDD) cameras have revolutionized single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM). In addition to an improved camera detective quantum efficiency, acquisition of DDD movies allows for correction of movement of the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-23 John L. Rubinstein , Marcus A. Brubaker

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) is crucial for observing material's structural and morphological evolution at Angstrom scales, but the electron beam can alter these processes. Devices such as CMOS-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-04 Brian Lee , Meng Li , Judith C Yang , Dmitri N Zakharov , Xiaohui Qu

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…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-12-16 Amitay Eldar , Boris Landa , Yoel Shkolnisky

Multiple approaches to use deep learning for image restoration have recently been proposed. Training such approaches requires well registered pairs of high and low quality images. While this is easily achievable for many imaging modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Tim-Oliver Buchholz , Mareike Jordan , Gaia Pigino , Florian Jug

Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) is a powerful tool in structural biology for 3D visualization of cells and biological systems at resolutions sufficient to identify individual proteins in situ. The measurements are collected by tilting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Vinith Kishore , Valentin Debarnot , AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh , Ivan Dokmanić

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-23 Kamyar Barakati , Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin C. Houston , Gerd Duscher , Sergei V. Kalinin

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an experimental technique for protein structure determination that images an ensemble of macromolecules in near-physiological contexts. While recent advances enable the reconstruction of dynamic…

Comprehensive, synapse-resolution imaging of the brain will be crucial for understanding neuronal computations and function. In connectomics, this has been the sole purview of volume electron microscopy (EM), which entails an excruciatingly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Yicong Li , Yaron Meirovitch , Aaron T. Kuan , Jasper S. Phelps , Alexandra Pacureanu , Wei-Chung Allen Lee , Nir Shavit , Lu Mi

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) is now the primary tool for exploring functional materials on the atomic level. Often, features of interest are highly localized in specific regions in the material, such as ferroelectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Nicole Creange , Ondrej Dyck , Rama K. Vasudevan , Maxim Ziatdinov , Sergei V. Kalinin

The past decade's "cryoEM revolution" has produced exponential growth in high-resolution structural data through advances in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and tomography (cryoET). Deep learning integration into structural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-29 Brady K. Zhou , Jason J. Hu , Jane K. J. Lee , Z. Hong Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos

The recent improvements in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) in the past few years are now allowing to observe molecular complexes at atomic resolution. As a consequence, numerous structures derived from cryo-EM are now available in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-04 Mikael Trellet , Gydo van Zundert , Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin

Volume electron microscopy is the method of choice for the in-situ interrogation of cellular ultrastructure at the nanometer scale. Recent technical advances have led to a rapid increase in large raw image datasets that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Andreas Müller , Deborah Schmidt , Lucas Rieckert , Michele Solimena , Martin Weigert

Many imaging modalities involve reconstruction of unknown objects from collections of noisy projections related by random rotations. In one of these modalities, cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the extremely low signal-to-noise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Joakim Andén , Justus Sagemüller

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

We introduce DiffFit, a differentiable algorithm for fitting protein atomistic structures into an experimental reconstructed Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) volume map. In structural biology, this process is necessary to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-09 Deng Luo , Zainab Alsuwaykit , Dawar Khan , Ondřej Strnad , Tobias Isenberg , Ivan Viola

Motivation: Cellular Electron CryoTomography (CECT) enables 3D visualization of cellular organization at near-native state and in sub-molecular resolution, making it a powerful tool for analyzing structures of macromolecular complexes and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-14 Min Xu , Xiaoqi Chai , Hariank Muthakana , Xiaodan Liang , Ge Yang , Tzviya Zeev-Ben-Mordehai , Eric Xing

Machine learning-based interatomic potentials and force fields depend critically on accurate atomic structures, yet such data are scarce due to the limited availability of experimentally resolved crystals. Although atomic-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yaotian Yang , Yiwen Tang , Yizhe Chen , Xiao Chen , Jiangjie Qiu , Hao Xiong , Haoyu Yin , Zhiyao Luo , Yifei Zhang , Sijia Tao , Wentao Li , Qinghua Zhang , Yuqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Bin Zhao , Xiaonan Wang , Fei Wei

We show that de-focused single particle images recorded using a cryo-electron microscope (cryoEM) system may be processed like a Fresnel zone in-line hologram to obtain physically meaningful quantitative phase maps associated with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Apoorv Pant , Manidipa Banerjee , Kedar Khare