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Electrospray ion beam deposition (ESIBD) is the intact, chemically selective deposition of molecular ions on surfaces in vacuum. Here, we present a general method and dedicated instrumentation for ESIBD-based cryoEM sample preparation of…

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is one of the crucial tasks in medical image analysis, which aims to find a unique transformation while preserving the topology and invertibility of the transformation. Deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Ameneh Sheikhjafari , Michelle Noga , Kumaradevan Punithakumar , Nilanjan Ray

Purpose: Field monitoring measures field perturbations, which can be accounted for during image reconstructions. In certain field monitoring environments, significant phase deviations can arise far from isocenter due to the finite extent of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Paul I. Dubovan , Kyle M. Gilbert , Corey A. Baron

Diffeomorphic image registration (DIR) is a fundamental task in 3D medical image analysis that seeks topology-preserving deformations between image pairs. To ensure diffeomorphism, a common approach is to model the deformation field as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mohammadjavad Matinkia , Nilanjan Ray

Determining protein structures at an atomic level remains a significant challenge in structural biology. We introduce $\texttt{RecCrysFormer}$, a hybrid model that exploits the strengths of transformers with the aim of integrating…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 Tom Pan , Evan Dramko , Mitchell D. Miller , George N. Phillips , Anastasios Kyrillidis

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

In this paper we propose an algorithm for aligning three-dimensional objects when represented as density maps, motivated by applications in cryogenic electron microscopy. The algorithm is based on minimizing the 1-Wasserstein distance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Amit Singer , Ruiyi Yang

CLeFAPS, a fast and flexible pairwise structural alignment algorithm based on a rigid-body framework, namely CLePAPS, is proposed. Instead of allowing twists (or bends), the flexible in CLeFAPS means: (a) flexibilization of the algorithm's…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-03-04 Sheng Wang

Understanding the structure of a protein complex is crucial indetermining its function. However, retrieving accurate 3D structures from microscopy images is highly challenging, particularly as many imaging modalities are two-dimensional.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-18 Benjamin J. Blundell , Christian Sieben , Suliana Manley , Ed Rosten , QueeLim Ch'ng , Susan Cox

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

We introduce DisProtEdit, a controllable protein editing framework that leverages dual-channel natural language supervision to learn disentangled representations of structural and functional properties. Unlike prior approaches that rely on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-19 Max Ku , Sun Sun , Hongyu Guo , Wenhu Chen

Coarse-grained (CG) models play a crucial role in the study of protein structures, protein thermodynamic properties, and protein conformation dynamics. Due to the information loss in the coarse-graining process, backmapping from CG to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-30 Yikai Liu , Ming Chen , Guang Lin

Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3-D structure, termed as the inverse folding problem, is central to protein engineering. However, it remains challenging due to the vast sequence space and the importance of local…

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Fitting multi-exponential models to Diffusion MRI (dMRI) data has always been challenging due to various underlying complexities. In this work, we introduce a novel and robust fitting framework for the standard two-compartment IVIM…

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a pivotal method within quantum chemistry and materials science, with its core involving the construction and solution of the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian. Despite its importance, the application of DFT is…

Although large-scale visual foundation models (VFMs) achieve remarkable performance in semantic understanding, they still underperform in instance-aware dense prediction tasks. They exhibit different biases in representation: for instance,…

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Liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) based proteomics is a well-established research field with major applications such as identification of disease biomarkers, drug discovery, drug design and development. In…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-08 Fatema Tuz Zohora , Ngoc Hieu Tran , Xianglilan Zhang , Lei Xin , Baozhen Shan , Ming Li

We demonstrate a new algorithm for finding protein conformations that minimize a non-bonded energy function. The new algorithm, called the difference map, seeks to find an atomic configuration that is simultaneously in two constraint…

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In this paper, we introduce a denoising diffusion algorithm to discover microstructures with nonlinear fine-tuned properties. Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are generative models that use diffusion-based dynamics to gradually…

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