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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently become a premier method for obtaining high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. However, it is limited to biomolecular samples with low conformational heterogeneity, where all…

Electron tomography (ET) has become a standard technique for 3D characterization of materials at the nano-scale. Traditional reconstruction algorithms such as weighted back projection suffer from disruptive artifacts with insufficient…

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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

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…

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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…

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

In this paper we propose a modified cross correlation method to align images from the same class in single-particle electron microscopy of highly non-spherical structures. In this new method, First we coarsely align projection images, and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-26 Wooram Park , Gregory S. Chirikjian

Cryo-EM is a transformational paradigm in molecular biology where computational methods are used to infer 3D molecular structure at atomic resolution from extremely noisy 2D electron microscope images. At the forefront of research is how to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-12 Shayan Shekarforoush , David B. Lindell , Marcus A. Brubaker , David J. Fleet

Motivation: Structural heterogeneity in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data represents a major challenge for high-resolution structure determination. Unsupervised classification may serve as the first step in the…

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In single particle reconstruction (SPR) from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the 3D structure of a molecule needs to be determined from its 2D projection images taken at unknown viewing directions. Zvi Kam showed already in 1980 that…

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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…

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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…

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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) is a Nobel prize-winning technology for determining the 3D structure of particles at near-atomic resolution. A fundamental step in the recovering of the 3D single-particle structure is to align its 2D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Koby Bibas , Gili Weiss-Dicker , Dana Cohen , Noa Cahan , Hayit Greenspan

In cryo-electron microscopy, the 3D electric potentials of an ensemble of molecules are projected along arbitrary viewing directions to yield noisy 2D images. The volume maps representing these potentials typically exhibit a great deal of…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-08 Joakim Andén , Amit Singer

In x-ray computed tomography (CT) it is generally acknowledged that reconstruction methods exploiting image sparsity allow reconstruction from a significantly reduced number of projections. The use of such reconstruction methods is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jakob S. Jørgensen , Emil Y. Sidky , Per Christian Hansen , Xiaochuan Pan

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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Qi Zhang , Chenglong Bao , Hai Lin , Mingxu Hu

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

We target the problem of estimating the center of mass of noisy 2-D images. We assume that the noise dominates the image, and thus many standard approaches are vulnerable to estimation errors. Our approach uses a surrogate function to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Ayelet Heimowitz , Nir Sharon , Amit Singer