Journal
JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 164, Issue 1, Pages 7-17Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2008.04.006
Keywords
automated techniques; denoising; diffusion; electron tomography; feature extraction; template matching
Funding
- National Cancer Institute
- NIH, Bethesda
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Tomograms of biological specimens derived using transmission electron microscopy can be intrinsically noisy due to the use of low electron doses, the presence of a missing wedge in most data collection schemes, and inaccuracies arising during 3D volume reconstruction. Before tomograms can be interpreted reliably, for example, by 3D segmentation, it is essential that the data be suitably denoised using procedures that can be individually optimized for specific data sets. Here, we implement a systematic procedure to compare various nonlinear denoising techniques on tomograms recorded at room temperature and at cryogenic temperatures, and establish quantitative criteria to select a denoising approach that is most relevant for a given tomogram. We demonstrate that using an appropriate denoising algorithm facilitates robust segmentation of tomograms of HIV-infected macrophages and Bdellovibrio bacteria obtained from specimens at room and cryogenic temperatures, respectively. We validate this strategy of automated segmentation of optimally denoised tomograms by comparing its performance with manual extraction of key features from the same tomograms. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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