CryoGAN: A Deep Generative Adversarial Approach to Single-Particle Cryo-EM

CryoGAN uses ideas from deep generative adversarial learning to perform image reconstruction in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). In this chapter, we begin by introducing single-particle cryo-EM. We then formulate the associated image-reconstruction problem and discuss the main solutions found in the literature. Next, we describe the CryoGAN algorithm and show some representative results. Finally, we discuss what our experiences with Cryo-GAN suggest about the advantages and disadvantages of such deep generative adversarial methods in single-particle cryo-EM and beyond.