Noise pixels in 2D classes

2D Classification
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During 2D classification of a negative stain dataset, some of the classes have a strong pixel with circular ripples around it that cover most of the image:

pixel

Is there a way to mitigate this during classification or maybe at earlier stages? Is it possible that the particles in those classes are good, but get misclassified due to a strong pixel?
Thanks

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Quite often these are due to hot pixels that haven’t been corrected for during gain normalization. I would try processing your gain reference using remove_outlier_pixels, which is a command line utility included with CisTEM (that has worked for me in the past).

Cheers
Oli

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