arXiv:2502.08287eess.IVcs.AI2025-02被引 1

CRISP通过条件随机场提升冷冻电镜图像分割精度,自动生成高质量标注。

CRISP: A Framework for Cryo-EM Image Segmentation and Processing with Conditional Random Field

  • 融合条件随机场与多种模型,实现像素级颗粒分割
  • 在合成数据上达90%以上准确率、召回率等指标
  • 适合冷冻电镜领域研究者用于自动化数据处理

在冷冻电镜(cryo-EM)中区分信号与背景是关键初始步骤,但因信噪比低、杂质存在及颗粒密集且大小不一,仍需大量人工操作。尽管已有图像分割技术实现像素级颗粒识别,但低信噪比使监督模型训练的准确标注难以自动化生成。同时,缺乏系统比较不同流程设计的平台。为此,我们提出一个模块化框架,可自动生成高质量分割图作为真实标签。该框架支持多种分割模型与损失函数选择,并集成不同求解器和特征集的条件随机场(CRF),对粗分割结果进行精细化优化。在有限微图训练下,该方法在合成数据上达到超过90%的准确率、召回率、精确率、交并比(IoU)和F1分数。此外,在真实实验数据上,使用本框架提取的颗粒生成的三维密度图分辨率高于现有自动拾取工具,且性能接近专家手工标注数据集。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Differentiating signals from the background in micrographs is a critical initial step for cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), yet it remains laborious due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the presence of contaminants and densely packed particles of varying sizes. Although image segmentation has recently been introduced to distinguish particles at the pixel level, the low SNR complicates the automated generation of accurate annotations for training supervised models. Moreover, platforms for systematically comparing different design choices in pipeline construction are lacking. Thus, a modular framework is essential to understand the advantages and limitations of this approach and drive further development. To address these challenges, we present a pipeline that automatically generates high-quality segmentation maps from cryo-EM data to serve as ground truth labels. Our modular framework enables the selection of various segmentation models and loss functions. We also integrate Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) with different solvers and feature sets to refine coarse predictions, thereby producing fine-grained segmentation. This flexibility facilitates optimal configurations tailored to cryo-EM datasets. When trained on a limited set of micrographs, our approach achieves over 90% accuracy, recall, precision, Intersection over Union (IoU), and F1-score on synthetic data. Furthermore, to demonstrate our framework's efficacy in downstream analyses, we show that the particles extracted by our pipeline produce 3D density maps with higher resolution than those generated by existing particle pickers on real experimental datasets, while achieving performance comparable to that of manually curated datasets from experts.

冷冻电镜图像分割条件随机场生物成像

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