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Wrist vein biometrics is promising due to it not having finger or palm patterns on the skin surface making the image acquisition process easier. This paper presents a deep learning-based novel low-cost end-to-end contactless wrist vein biometric recognition system. FYO wrist vein dataset was used to train a novel U-Net CNN structure to extract and segment wrist vein patterns effectively. The extracted images were evaluated to have a Dice Coefficient of 0.723. A CNN and Siamese Neural Network were implemented to match wrist vein images obtaining the highest F1-score of 84.7%. The average matching time is less than 3 s on a Raspberry Pi. 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