Vasodilation response; see also Flow-mediated dilation
parametizing the, 247–248
relationship to classical indexes, 252–254 robust EigenFMD and EigenD modes,
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Velcro surfaces, 780–781
Virtual bronchoscopy (VB) dataset, 696, 697 Voronoi neighborhood, 691–693
Voxel anisotropy, effects in MR imaging, 579 Voxels: see Brain-tissue classification
Watershed line (WSL), 337
Watershed transformation, detection of vascular tree by means of, 331
algorithm, 334
evaluation of local contrast, 337–339 extraction of crest lines, 335–337 extraction of dark details, 334–335 prefiltering, 334
motivation, 331–332 properties, 332–333 results, 339–340
state of the art, 333–334 Wavelet analysis, 719–720
Wavelet approach, symmlet, 721–726, 729 Wavelet expansion, 720, 722–724
Wavelet filtering, 717–721
Wavelet transform, continuous, 74 Wavelets, 73–77
scale-frequency domain of, 75
Wavelets multiresolution decomposition, 77 Weak classifiers, 101
Weak single classification error/weak classifier, 90
Weighted Gaussian mixture model (WGMM), 625–630, 636, 638–639, 644, 649
Weighting factor (WF), 417 White matter, 281, 282
Width response curves, 539–540