Title
Multi-Target Detection With Application To Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Abstract
We consider the multi-target detection problem of recovering a set of signals that appear multiple times at unknown locations in a noisy measurement. In the low noise regime, one can estimate the signals by first detecting occurrences, then clustering and averaging them. In the high noise regime, however, neither detection nor clustering can be performed reliably, so that strategies along these lines are destined to fail. Notwithstanding, using autocorrelation analysis, we show that the impossibility to detect and cluster signal occurrences in the presence of high noise does not necessarily preclude signal estimation. Specifically, to estimate the signals, we derive simple relations between the autocorrelations of the observation and those of the signals. These autocorrelations can be estimated accurately at any noise level given a sufficiently long measurement. To recover the signals from the observed autocorrelations, we solve a set of polynomial equations through nonlinear least-squares. We provide analysis regarding well-posedness of the task, and demonstrate numerically the effectiveness of the method in a variety of settings.The main goal of this work is to provide theoretical and numerical support for a recently proposed framework to image 3D structures of biological macromolecules using cryo-electron microscopy in extreme noise levels.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1088/1361-6420/ab2aec
INVERSE PROBLEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cryo-electron microscopy, autocorrelation analysis, detection, blind deconvolution
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0266-5611
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tamir Bendory111015.46
Boumal, Nicolas217814.50
William Leeb341.10
Eitan Levin451.12
A. Singer569552.77