arXiv:2606.10255eess.IVcs.CV2026-06

为冷冻电镜断层成像提供可扩展的标注基准,推动机器学习在生物结构分析中的应用。

POPSICLE: Benchmark Datasets for Segmentation and Localization in CryoET

论文配图:POPSICLE: Benchmark Datasets for Segmentation and Localization in CryoET
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  • 基于冷冻电镜数据门户构建,涵盖真核与原核系统多类型样本。
  • 支持体素级分割与稀疏定位任务,覆盖纯化及完整细胞样本。
  • 开放可扩展,适合从事冷冻电镜与生物图像分析的研究者使用。

冷冻电子断层成像(cryoET)已成为结构与细胞生物学中强大的工具,能够直接在天然环境下可视化细胞内的大分子结构,从而将分子架构与细胞组织关联起来。然而,要充分发挥其潜力,越来越依赖于计算分析尤其是机器学习(ML)的发展来解读其复杂且信息丰富的数据。尽管进展迅速,但目前机器学习在冷冻电镜领域的开发仍受限于缺乏标准化、高质量标注的基准数据集。现有评估通常规模小、任务单一,且独立构建,难以实现方法间的可靠比较。本文提出POPSICLE,一个基于冷冻电镜数据门户(CryoET Data Portal)的冷冻电镜分割与大分子定位基准套件,该门户是一个开放、面向机器学习的数据资源库,包含断层扫描数据、元数据和标注。POPSICLE涵盖真核与原核系统、纯化与完整细胞样本,支持体素级分割与稀疏定位任务。依托动态更新的数据资源,可随新数据与标注持续扩展。基线实验显示模型在不同任务中的排名差异显著,凸显了需要针对冷冻电镜特性定制评估标准,而非沿用邻近生物医学成像领域的做法。因此,POPSICLE为冷冻电镜领域可复现的机器学习评估提供了开放且可扩展的基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) has emerged as a powerful tool in structural and cellular biology by enabling direct visualization of macromolecular structures within intact cells, thereby linking molecular architecture to cellular organization in a native context. Realizing the full potential of cryoET, however, increasingly depends on advances in computational analysis, particularly machine learning (ML), to interpret its complex and information-rich data. Despite rapid progress, ML development for cryoET remains bottlenecked by the lack of standardized, well-annotated benchmarks. Existing evaluations are typically small, task-specific, and are assembled in isolation, limiting robust comparisons across methods. Here, we present POPSICLE, a benchmark suite for cryoET segmentation and macromolecular localization built from the CryoET Data Portal - an open, ML-ready repository of tomographic data, metadata, and annotations. POPSICLE spans eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems, both purified and fully in situ samples, and dense voxel-wise segmentation as well as sparse localization tasks. Built on a living data resource, it can expand as new datasets and annotations become available. Baseline experiments reveal substantial variation in model rankings across tasks, underscoring the need for benchmarks tailored to the unique characteristics of cryoET rather than evaluation practices adapted from adjacent biomedical imaging domains. POPSICLE thus provides an open and extensible foundation for reproducible ML evaluation in cryoET.

冷冻电镜图像分割机器学习生物成像

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