Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2024.3476619
Xiangwen Wang;Qiaoying Jin;Li Zou;Xianghong Lin;Yonggang Lu
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a critical technique for recovering and studying the fine 3D structure of proteins and other biological macromolecules, where the primary issue is to determine the orientations of projection images with high levels of noise. This paper proposes a method to determine the orientations of cryo-EM projection images using reliable common lines and spherical embeddings. First, the reliability of common lines between projection images is evaluated using a weighted voting algorithm based on an iterative improvement technique and binarized weighting. Then, the reliable common lines are used to calculate the normal vectors and local $X$