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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Autocorrelation analysis for cryo-EM with sparsity constraints: Improved sample complexity and projection-based algorithms.

Tamir Bendory, Yuehaw Khoo, Joe Kileel, Oscar Mickelin, Amit Singer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Tamir BendorySchool of Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2373-9388
Yuehaw KhooDepartment of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0002-8472-8984
Joe KileelDepartment of Mathematics, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
Oscar MickelinProgram in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.ORCID 0000-0003-0167-1992
Amit SingerDepartment of Mathematics, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.ORCID 0000-0002-6975-7955

Funding

Reconstruction of heterogeneous and small macromolecules by cyro-EMR01GM136780 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI SINGER, AMIT · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM136780
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number of noisy images required for molecular reconstruction in single-particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) is governed by the autocorrelations of the observed, randomly oriented, noisy projection images. In this work, we consider the effect of imposing sparsity priors on the molecule. We use techniques from signal processing, optimization, and applied algebraic geometry to obtain theoretical and computational contributions for this challenging nonlinear inverse problem with sparsity constraints. We prove that molecular structures modeled as sums of Gaussians are uniquely determined by the second-order autocorrelation of their projection images, implying that the sample complexity is proportional to the square of the variance of the noise. This theory improves upon the nonsparse case, where the third-order autocorrelation is required for uniformly oriented particle images and the sample complexity scales with the cube of the noise variance. Furthermore, we build a computational framework to reconstruct molecular structures which are sparse in the wavelet basis. This method combines the sparse representation for the molecule with projection-based techniques used for phase retrieval in X-ray crystallography.

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crystallographic phase retrievalmethod of momentsprojection-based algorithmsingle-particle cryoelectron microscopysparsity

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