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FPicker: Topology-Guided Evolution for Filament Tracing in Low-SNR Microscopy

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 8, 2026 · UTC

Automating filament tracing in Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) is essential for 3D helical reconstruction but challenged by intersecting topologies and extremely low Signal-to-Noise Ratios ($\text{SNR} = σ_s^2/σ_n^2$ < 0.1 or -10 dB). Existing paradigms fail: pixel-wise segmenters suffer from severe topological fracturing, box-based detectors face ghost center drift, sequential trackers derail due to error accumulation, and traditional active contours collapse under artificial closed-curve constraints. To resolve these bottlenecks, we present FPicker, the first topology-guided framework rec

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