Automatic particle picking and multi-class classification in cryo-electron tomograms

Xuanli Chen, Yuxiang Chen, Jan Michael Schuller, Nassir Navab, Friedrich Förster

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Abstract

Macromolecular structure determination using cryo-electron tomography requires large amount of subtomograms depicting the same molecule, which are averaged. In this paper, we propose a novel automatic particle picking and classification method for cryo-electron tomograms. The workflow comprises two stages: detection and classification. The detection method consists of a template-free picking procedure based on anisotropic diffusion filtering and connected component analysis. For classification, a novel 3D rotation invariant feature descriptor named Sphere Ring Haar and a hierarchical classification algorithm consisting of two machine learning models (DBSCAN and random forest) are proposed. The performance of our method is superior compared to template matching based methods and we achieved over 90% true positive rates for detection of proteasomes and ribosomes in experimental data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages838-841
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781467319591
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jul 2014
Event2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 29 Apr 20142 May 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period29/04/142/05/14

Keywords

  • Automatic particle picking
  • Machine learning
  • Proteasome
  • Ribosome
  • Sphere ring haar

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