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The cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM) is increasingly popular these years. It helps to uncover the biological structures and functions of macromolecules. In this paper, we address image denoising problem in cryo-EM. Denoising the cryo-EM…

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In single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the efficient determination of orientation parameters for 2D projection images poses a significant challenge yet is crucial for reconstructing 3D structures. This task is complicated by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Szu-Chi Chung

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…

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Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a cornerstone of structural biology, enabling near-atomic resolution analysis of macromolecules through advanced computational methods. However, the development of cryo-EM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Runmin Jiang , Genpei Zhang , Yuntian Yang , Siqi Wu , Minhao Wu , Wanyue Feng , Yizhou Zhao , Xi Xiao , Xiao Wang , Tianyang Wang , Xingjian Li , Muyuan Chen , Min 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

The goal of cryo-electron microscopy (EM) is to reconstruct the 3-dimensional structure of a molecule from a collection of its 2-dimensional projected images. In this article, we show that the basic premise of cryo-EM --- patching together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Ke Ye , Lek-Heng Lim

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

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

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

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

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…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a central tool for high-resolution structural biology, yet the massive scale of datasets (often exceeding 100k particle images) renders 3D reconstruction both computationally expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Huaizhi Qu , Xiao Wang , Gengwei Zhang , Jie Peng , Tianlong Chen

Motivated by the task of 2-D classification in single particle reconstruction by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), we consider the problem of heterogeneous multireference alignment of images. In this problem, the goal is to estimate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-03 Chao Ma , Tamir Bendory , Nicolas Boumal , Fred Sigworth , Amit Singer

Macromolecules change their shape (conformation) in the process of carrying out their functions. The imaging by cryo-electron microscopy of rapidly-frozen, individual copies of macromolecules (single particles) is a powerful and general…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Bogdan Toader , Fred J. Sigworth , Roy R. Lederman

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a widely used technique for recovering the 3-D structure of biological molecules from a large number of experimentally generated noisy 2-D tomographic projection images of the 3-D structure, taken from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Oscar Mickelin , Amit Singer , Yuguan Wang

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

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

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently joined X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy as a high-resolution structural method for biological macromolecules. Cryo-EM was selected by Nature Methods as Method of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Amit Singer

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an indispensable technique for determining the 3D structures of dynamic biomolecular complexes. While typically applied to image a single molecular species, cryo-EM has the potential for structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jeffrey Gu , Minkyu Jeon , Ambri Ma , Serena Yeung-Levy , Ellen D. Zhong

Nowadays, modern electron microscopes deliver images at atomic scale. The precise atomic structure encodes information about material properties. Thus, an important ingredient in the image analysis is to locate the centers of the atoms…

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