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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an emerging experimental method to characterize the structure of large biomolecular assemblies. Single particle cryo-EM records 2D images (so-called micrographs) of projections of the three-dimensional…

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Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) provides a unique window into molecular organization in cellular environments (in situ). However, the interpretation of molecular structural information is complicated by several intrinsic properties of…

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Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) provides direct 3D visualization of macromolecules inside the cell, enabling analysis of their in situ morphology. This morphology can be regarded as an SE(3)-invariant, denoised volumetric representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Mostofa Rafid Uddin , Mahek Vora , Qifeng Wu , Muyuan Chen , Min Xu

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized structural biology by enabling near-atomic-level visualization of biomolecular assemblies. However, the exponential growth in cryo-EM data throughput and complexity, coupled with diverse…

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Cryogenic Electron Tomography (CryoET) is a useful imaging technology in structural biology that is hindered by its need for manual annotations, especially in particle picking. Recent works have endeavored to remedy this issue with few-shot…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-10 Yizhou Zhao , Hengwei Bian , Michael Mu , Mostofa R. Uddin , Zhenyang Li , Xiang Li , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) enables 3D imaging of complex, radiation-sensitive structures with molecular detail. However, image contrast from the interference of scattered electrons is nonlinear with atomic density and multiple…

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-17 Chentianye Xu , Xueying Zhan , Min Xu

Cryo-ET allows to generate tomograms of biological samples in situ, capturing complex structures in their native context. Despite low signal-to-noise ratio in reconstructed volumes, the large number of copies of the same macromolecules…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Fabian Kruse , Vinith Kishore , Valentin Debarnot , Ivan Dokmanić

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

We introduce ICE-TIDE, a method for cryogenic electron tomography (cryo-ET) that simultaneously aligns observations and reconstructs a high-resolution volume. The alignment of tilt series in cryo-ET is a major problem limiting the…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a major experimental technique to determine the structures of large protein complexes and molecular assemblies, as evidenced by the 2017 Nobel Prize. Although cryo-EM has been drastically…

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for obtaining three-dimensional (3D) structures of biological macromolecules in native states. A minimum cryo-EM image data set for deriving a meaningful…

Applications · Statistics 2014-04-28 Ting-Li Chen , Dai-Ni Hsieh , Hung Hung , I-Ping Tu , Pei-Shien Wu , Yi-Ming Wu , Wei-Hau Chang , Su-Yun Huang

Determining the 3D structures of biological molecules is a key problem for both biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising technique for structure estimation which relies heavily on computational methods to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-01-29 Ali Punjani , Marcus A. Brubaker

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allows for the high-resolution reconstruction of 3D structures of proteins and other biomolecules. Successful reconstruction of both shape and movement greatly helps understand the fundamental processes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xinhang Liu , Yan Zeng , Yifan Qin , Hao Li , Jiakai Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu

The past decade's "cryoEM revolution" has produced exponential growth in high-resolution structural data through advances in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and tomography (cryoET). Deep learning integration into structural…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-29 Brady K. Zhou , Jason J. Hu , Jane K. J. Lee , Z. Hong Zhou , Demetri Terzopoulos

In cryo-electron microscopy, accurate particle localization and classification are imperative. Recent deep learning solutions, though successful, require extensive training data sets. The protracted generation time of physics-based models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Pavol Harar , Lukas Herrmann , Philipp Grohs , David Haselbach

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Amit Singer , Fred J. Sigworth

Cryogenic Electron Tomography (CryoET) combined with sub-volume averaging (SVA) is the only imaging modality capable of resolving protein structures inside cells at molecular resolution. Particle picking, the task of localizing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Linhan Wang , Jianwen Dou , Wang Li , Shengkun Wang , Zhiwu Xie , Chang-Tien Lu , Yinlin Chen

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

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has transformed structural biology by allowing to reconstruct 3D biomolecular structures up to near-atomic resolution. However, the 3D reconstruction process remains challenging, as the 3D structures…

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