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    A Deep-Learning and Bio-inspired Vision Model-Based Approach for Automatic Coronary Arteries Segmentation
    (IEEE, 2025)
    López-Figueroa, Alberto
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    Brieva, Jorge  
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    Moya-Albor, Ernesto  
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    Gomez-Coronel, Sandra L.
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    Renza, Diego
    The accurate segmentation of coronary arteries from X-ray angiograms is critical for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Yet, it remains a challenging task due to low image contrast and complex vessel structures. This paper introduces a novel hybrid methodology that combines a bio-inspired vision model, the Steered Hermite Transform (SHT), with a deep learning architecture for robust vessel segmentation. We leverage the SHT to decompose each angiogram into a rich, multi-resolution set of 15 feature maps that capture local image structures at different scales and orientations. These Hermite coefficients, along with the original image, form a 16-channel input tensor used to train a U-Net. This approach enables the network to learn from an enhanced feature space that explicitly represents vessel-like patterns. Evaluated on a public dataset of 134 coronary angiograms, our model demonstrates outstanding performance, achieving an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.9872. The results confirm that enriching the input of a deep neural network with SHT coefficients significantly improves its ability to identify and segment complex vascular networks accurately. ©The authors ©IEEE.