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Convolution Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines for Automatic Segmentation of Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography

Caining Zhang¹, Huaguang Li², Xiaoya Guo³, David Molony⁴, Xiaopeng Guo², Habib Samady⁴, Don P. Giddens^4,5, Lambros Athanasiou⁶, Rencan Nie^2,*, Jinde Cao^3,*, Dalin Tang^1,*,7

1 School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China.
2 School of Information Science & Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, China.
3 School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, 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 & Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
7 Mathematical Sciences Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609 USA.
* Corresponding Authors: Dalin Tang, Southeast University, China. Email: dtang@wpi.edu; Rencan Nei. Email: rcnie@ynu.edu.cn; Jinde Cao. Email: jdcao@seu.edu.cn.