DM-SIRT: A Distributed Method for Multi-tilt Reconstruction in Electron Tomography

Zihao Wang, Jingrong Zhang, Xintong Liu, Zhiyong Liu*, Xiaohua Wan, Fa Zhang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The ‘missing wedge’ of single tilt in electron tomography introduces severely artifacts into the reconstructed results. To reduce the ‘missing wedge’ effect, a widely used method is ‘multi-tilt reconstruction’, which collects projections using multiple different axes. However, as the number of tilt series increases, its computing and memory costs also rises. While the demand to speed up its reconstruction procedure grows, the huge memory requirement from the 3D structure and strong data dependencies from projections heavily limit its parallelization. In our work, we present a new fully distributed multi-tilt reconstruction framework named DM-SIRT. To improve the parallelism of the reconstruction process and reduce the memory requirements of each process, we formulate the multi-tilt reconstruction as a consensus optimization problem and design a distributed multi-tilt SIRT algorithm. To improve the reconstruction resolution, we applied a multi-agent consensus equilibrium (MACE) with a new data division strategy. Experiments show that along with the visually and quantitatively improvement in resolution, DM-SIRT can acquire a 5.4x speedup ratio compared to the raw multi-tilt reconstruction version. It also has 87% decrease of memory overhead and 8 times more scalable than the raw reconstruction version.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBioinformatics Research and Applications - 15th International Symposium, ISBRA 2019, Proceedings
EditorsMin Li, Zhipeng Cai, Pavel Skums
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages220-231
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030202415
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2019 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 3 Jun 20196 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11490 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period3/06/196/06/19

Keywords

  • Consensus optimization
  • Cryo-electron Tomography
  • Multi-tilt reconstruction
  • Parallel computing
  • TxBR

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