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Machine Learning Model Comparison for Automatic Segmentation of Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography and Plaque Cap Thickness Quantification

Caining Zhang¹, Xiaopeng Guo², Xiaoya Guo³, David Molony⁴, Huaguang Li², Habib Samady⁴, Don P. Giddens^4,5, Lambros Athanasiou⁶, Dalin Tang^1*,7, Rencan Nie^2,*, Jinde Cao⁸

1 School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China
2 School of Information Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, China
3 School of Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023, China
4 Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 30307, USA
5 The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
6 Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
7 Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA
8 School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

* Corresponding Authors: Dalin Tang, Southeast University. Email: ; Rencan Nie. Email: