Prof Min Xu is an Assistant Professor at the Computational Biology Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. During his talk yesterday, Prof. Min presented Cryo-ET Tomography, which captures a 3D image of a single cell's subcellular structures at sub-molecular resolution and in a near-native state. It also provides unprecedented opportunities for systematically studying the native spatial organization of subcellular structures, especially macromolecules. Prof. Min concluded by saying: “We are only at the beginning of applying AI techniques to the analysis of Cryo-ET data, and we believe AI techniques like computer vision and machine learning will play an important role in facilitating the understanding and analysis of cellular tomograms”
