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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…

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

Cryo-EM reconstruction algorithms seek to determine a molecule's 3D density map from a series of noisy, unlabeled 2D projection images captured with an electron microscope. Although reconstruction algorithms typically model the 3D volume as…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-06 Ellen D. Zhong , Adam Lerer , Joseph H. Davis , Bonnie Berger

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

A major challenge in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is that the orientations adopted by the 3D particles prior to imaging are unknown; yet, this knowledge is essential for high-resolution reconstruction. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Jelena Banjac , Laurène Donati , Michaël Defferrard

Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) is a technique that captures images of biological samples at different tilts, preserving their native state as much as possible. Along with the partial tilt series and noise, one of the major challenges in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Vinith Kishore , Valentin Debarnot , Ivan Dokmanić

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) remains pivotal in structural biology, yet the task of protein particle picking, integral for 3D protein structure construction, is laden with manual inefficiencies. While recent AI tools such as Topaz and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Fei He , Zhiyuan Yang , Mingyue Gao , Biplab Poudel , Newgin Sam Ebin Sam Dhas , Rajan Gyawali , Ashwin Dhakal , Jianlin Cheng , Dong Xu

Cryo-electron tomography (Cryo-ET) is a 3D imaging technique that enables the systemic study of shape, abundance, and distribution of macromolecular structures in single cells in near-atomic resolution. However, the systematic and efficient…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-29 Kai Yi , Jianye Pang , Yungeng Zhang , Xiangrui Zeng , Min Xu

We consider the problem of recovering the three-dimensional atomic structure of a flexible macromolecule from a heterogeneous cryo-EM dataset. The dataset contains noisy tomographic projections of the electrostatic potential of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Willem Diepeveen , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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

Enhancing cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) 3D density maps at intermediate resolution (4-8 {\AA}) is crucial in protein structure determination. Recent advances in deep learning have led to the development of automated approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chenwei Zhang , Khanh Dao Duc

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables in situ visualization of macromolecular structures, where subtomogram analysis tasks such as classification, alignment, and averaging are critical for structural determination. However, effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runmin Jiang , Wanyue Feng , Yuntian Yang , Shriya Pingulkar , Hong Wang , Xi Xiao , Xiaoyu Cao , Genpei Zhang , Xiao Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Tianyang Wang , Yang Liu , Xingjian Li , Min Xu

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

Electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique in structural biology used to reconstruct accurate volumetric maps of molecules. One step of the cryo-EM pipeline involves solving an inverse-problem. This inverse-problem, referred to as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-26 Aaditya V. Rangan , Wai-Shing Tang , Pilar Cossio , Kexin Zhang , Nikolaus Grigorieff

Cryo-EM is a powerful tool for understanding macromolecular structures, yet current methods for structure reconstruction are slow and computationally demanding. To accelerate research on pose estimation, we present CESPED, a new dataset…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-03 Ruben Sanchez-Garcia , Michael Saur , Javier Vargas , Carl Poelking , Charlotte M Deane

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging imaging modality capable of visualizing proteins and macro-molecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. The low electron-doses used to prevent sample radiation damage,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Qinwen Huang , Ye Zhou , Xiaochen Du , Reed Chen , Jianyou Wang , Cynthia Rudin , Alberto Bartesaghi

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoder models for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencoder models have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Muyang Li , Yao Lu , Song Han

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-16 Guy Shapira , Yoel Shkolnisky

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables 3D visualization of cellular structures. Accurate reconstruction of high-resolution volumes is complicated by the very low signal-to-noise ratio and a restricted range of sample tilts. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Vinith Kishore , Valentin Debarnot , AmirEhsan Khorashadizadeh , Ricardo D. Righetto , Benjamin D. Engel , Ivan Dokmanić

Accurate orientation estimation is a crucial component of 3D molecular structure reconstruction, both in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and in the increasingly popular field of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET). The…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-25 Sheng Xu , Amnon Balanov , Amit Singer , Tamir Bendory

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