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Zharkova, V., Ipson, S.S., Zharkov, S.I., Maglogiannis, I. (2007). Intensity and Region-Based Feature Recognition in Solar Images. In: Zharkova, V., Jain, L.C. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Recognition and Classification of Astrophysical and Medical Images. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47518-7_3
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