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. 2022 Jan 11;12:821217. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2021.821217

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Defining representative units. (A) Internal hierarchy of medical data. Each tier represents an increasing complexity or resolution of underlying biological units. At the base of this pyramid is shown the two different methods for defining representative units in a particular study. (B) Consequences of using a patch-based instance definition include the partitioning of functional sub-units across multiple patches.