CryoPromptSeg: Prompt-guided Segmentation with Integrated Denoising for Cryo-EM Particle Picking

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Motivation Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) single particle analysis (SPA) is a key technique for revealing the structure of biomacromolecules by three-dimensional reconstruction. Achieving high-resolution reconstruction relies on the acquisition of a large number of authentic particles; however, manual particle picking is inefficient and inadequate for the demands of reconstruction, making automated particle picking a major research focus. Although the foundational segmentation model Segment Anything Model (SAM) has recently advanced automated particle picking, its segmentation advantages have not been fully realized in cryo-EM applications. Moreover, cryo-EM images often have significant noise. Conventional denoising decreases noise but frequently overlooks high-level semantic information, leading to oversmoothed particle regions and reduced particle distinguishability. Results To address these challenges, we propose CryoPromptSeg, which employs prompt-guided SAM for particle picking while integrating a semantically enhanced image denoiser. Specifically, by performing domain adaptation fine-tuning of SAM and incorporating prompts generated by the proposed automatic prompt generator, it achieves precise segmentation of cryo-EM particles. In addition, it employs a parallel multi-task framework to jointly train the denoiser and the prompt generator, incorporating particle semantic information from the prompt generator into the denoiser to suppress noise while preserving highly distinguishable particle structures. To lower the barrier to practical application, we developed a user-friendly online prediction platform for particle picking. Experimental results demonstrate that CryoPromptSeg outperforms existing mainstream methods in both particle picking accuracy and image denoising quality, thus providing a novel solution for the automation of particle picking. Availability The code and platform are available at: https://github.com/347251369/CryoPromptSeg. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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Authors Bin Yang, Yujie You, Liang Jin, Hongyang Yu, Li Zhang
Journal BMC Bioinformatics
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btag327
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https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag327
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