A Novel Multiscale Gaussian-Matched Filter Using Neural Networks for the Segmentation of X-Ray Coronary Angiograms

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(a) Original X-ray coronary angiogram. (b) Ground truth of angiogram in (a). (c) Gaussian filter response applying 12 directional kernels on the angiogram in (a). (d), (e), (f) Gaussian templates with , , and , respectively, as proposed by Chaudhuri et al. [12].

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