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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

3D registration-guided deformable residual inpainting for ssEM restoration.

Zhenbang Zhang, Jingtong Feng, Hongjia Li, Haythem El-Messiry, Zhiqiang Xu, Renmin Han

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Zhenbang ZhangShenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, 518000, China.
Jingtong FengResearch Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Nonlinear Expectations (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China.
Hongjia LiSchool of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7016-421X
Haythem El-MessiryCanadian University Dubai, Dubai, 117781, United Arab Emirates.
Zhiqiang XuDepartment of Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, 7909, United Arab Emirates.
Renmin HanShenzhen Research Institute of Shandong University, Shenzhen, 518000, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4761-6526

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Dubai Future Foundation 2024CANAD-MES-061Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Natural Science Foundation of Ningxia Province 2026AAC040016National Key Research and Development Program of China 2021YFF0704300Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2025A1515010342
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Abstract

motivationSerial section electron microscopy (ssEM) is essential for studying biological cell structures at nanometer resolution. However, supporting film folding (SFF) degradation frequently occurs during sample preparation, causing structural distortions and information loss that severely impair downstream analyses such as 3D reconstruction and neuron segmentation.

resultsWe propose RegInpaint, a novel recovery framework that jointly addresses deformation correction and missing-information restoration caused by SFF degradation. RegInpaint formulates SFF recovery as a joint problem of 3D elastic registration and image inpainting, providing a generalizable solution for ssEM restoration. Experiments on four EM datasets show that RegInpaint consistently outperforms existing methods in image restoration quality and significantly improves neuron segmentation accuracy. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source code is freely available at https://github.com/zhangzhenbang2021/RegInpaint.git.

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