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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2021

Robust and ultrafast fiducial marker correspondence in electron tomography by a two-stage algorithm considering local constraints.

Renmin Han, Guojun Li, Xin Gao

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Renmin HanResearch Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4761-6526
Guojun LiResearch Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1581-5897
Xin GaoKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-7108-3574

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King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyNational Key Research and Development Program of China 2020YFA0712400National Natural Science Foundation of China 62072280Office of Sponsored Research FCC/1/1976-17
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motivationElectron tomography (ET) has become an indispensable tool for structural biology studies. In ET, the tilt series alignment and the projection parameter calibration are the key steps toward high-resolution ultrastructure analysis. Usually, fiducial markers are embedded in the sample to aid the alignment. Despite the advances in developing algorithms to find correspondence of fiducial markers from different tilted micrographs, the error rate of the existing methods is still high such that manual correction has to be conducted. In addition, existing algorithms do not work well when the number of fiducial markers is high.

resultsIn this article, we try to completely solve the fiducial marker correspondence problem. We propose to divide the workflow of fiducial marker correspondence into two stages: (i) initial transformation determination, and (ii) local correspondence refinement. In the first stage, we model the transform estimation as a correspondence pair inquiry and verification problem. The local geometric constraints and invariant features are used to reduce the complexity of the problem. In the second stage, we encode the geometric distribution of the fiducial markers by a weighted Gaussian mixture model and introduce drift parameters to correct the effects of beam-induced motion and sample deformation. Comprehensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the robustness, efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Especially, the proposed two-stage algorithm is able to produce an accurate tracking within an average of  ⩽ 100 ms per image, even for micrographs with hundreds of fiducial markers, which makes the real-time ET data processing possible. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The code is available at https://github.com/icthrm/auto-tilt-pair. Additionally, the detailed original figures demonstrated in the experiments can be accessed at https://rb.gy/6adtk4. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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