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Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) is an increasingly popular technique for elucidating the three-dimensional structure of proteins and other biologically significant complexes at near-atomic resolution. It is an imaging…

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Pixel-level segmentation is essential in remote sensing, where foundational vision models like CLIP and Segment Anything Model(SAM) have demonstrated significant capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks. Despite their advances,…

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Particle picking is a crucial first step in the computational pipeline of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Selecting particles from the micrographs is difficult especially for small particles with low contrast. As…

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Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an enabling technology in drug discovery and in understanding molecular bases of disease by producing near-atomic resolution (less than 0.4 nm) 3D reconstructions of biological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Hong Xu , David E. Timm , Shireen Y. Elhabian

Current deep learning-based approaches for the segmentation of microscopy images heavily rely on large amount of training data with dense annotation, which is highly costly and laborious in practice. Compared to full annotation where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Mengwei Ren , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

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…

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In this study, we present a computational framework tailored for the precise detection and comprehensive analysis of nanoparticles within scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. The primary objective of this framework revolves around the…

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Semantic segmentation of microscopy images is a critical task for high-throughput materials characterisation, yet its automation is severely constrained by the prohibitive cost, subjectivity, and scarcity of expert-annotated data. While…

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Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a key technology to determine the structure of proteins, particularly large protein complexes and assemblies in recent years. A key challenge in cryo-EM data analysis is to automatically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-04 Nabin Giri , Raj S. Roy , Jianlin Cheng

Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstructs the three-dimensional (3D) structure of bio-molecules from a large set of 2D projection images with random and unknown orientations. A crucial step in the single-particle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Mona Zehni , Laurène Donati , Emmanuel Soubies , Zhizhen J. Zhao , Michael Unser

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…

In the field of transmission electron microscopy, data interpretation often lags behind acquisition methods, as image processing methods often have to be manually tailored to individual datasets. Machine learning offers a promising approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 C. K. Groschner , Christina Choi , M. C. Scott

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…

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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…

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Advances in imagery at atomic and near-atomic resolution, such as cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), have led to an influx of high resolution images of proteins and other macromolecular structures to data banks worldwide. Producing a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-06 Nathan Ranno , Dong Si

Cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) has become an essential tool for capturing high-resolution biological structures. Despite its advantage in visualizations, the large storage size of Cryo-EM data file poses significant challenges for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chunyu Zou

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

Medical image segmentation is usually regarded as one of the most important intermediate steps in clinical situations and medical imaging research. Thus, accurately assessing the segmentation quality of the automatically generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Zhenxi Zhang , Chunna Tian , Jie Li , Zhusi Zhong , Zhicheng Jiao , Xinbo Gao

Accurate segmentation and measurement of lithography scanning electron microscope (SEM) images are crucial for ensuring precise process control, optimizing device performance, and advancing semiconductor manufacturing yield. Lithography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xinyu He , Botong Zhao , Bingbing Li , Shujing Lyu , Jiwei Shen , Yue Lu

Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. However, existing methods face challenges in segmentation accuracy, interpretability, and generalization, which hinder their…

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