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			<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id>
			<journal-title-group>
				<journal-title>Informatica</journal-title>
			</journal-title-group>
			<issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn>
			<issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn>
			<publisher>
				<publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
			</publisher>
		</journal-meta>
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			<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf24408</article-id>
			<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2013.08</article-id>
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				<subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
					<subject>Research article</subject>
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			</article-categories>
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				<article-title>Point-Wise Adaptive Wavelet Transform for Signal Denoising</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Tomic</surname>
						<given-names>Mladen</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:mladen.tomic@riteh.hr">mladen.tomic@riteh.hr</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/>
					<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="fn1">∗</xref>
				</contrib>
				<contrib contrib-type="Author">
					<name>
						<surname>Sersic</surname>
						<given-names>Damir</given-names>
					</name>
					<email xlink:href="mailto:damir.sersic@fer.hr">damir.sersic@fer.hr</email>
					<xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/>
				</contrib>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, HR-Croatia</aff>
				<aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Unska 3,10000 Zagreb, HR-Croatia</aff>
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			<author-notes>
				<corresp id="fn1">
					<label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
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			<pub-date pub-type="epub">
				<day>01</day>
				<month>01</month>
				<year>2013</year>
			</pub-date>
			<volume>24</volume>
			<issue>4</issue>
			<fpage>637</fpage>
			<lpage>656</lpage>
			<history>
				<date date-type="received">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>03</month>
					<year>2012</year>
				</date>
				<date date-type="accepted">
					<day>01</day>
					<month>10</month>
					<year>2012</year>
				</date>
			</history>
			<abstract>
				<p>Underperformance in higher frequency signal regions denoising is a common problem for many denoising methods. Wavelet transforms are, generally, less prone to the problem than the pure spatial or frequency domain transforms, but there is still much room for improvements. In this paper, we propose a point-wise adaptive wavelet transform for signal denoising applications. It is very efficient in denoising higher frequency regions, without compromising the performance on smooth, lower frequency, regions. The transform uses statistical method of intersection of confidence intervals rule to adapt to local signal properties. Its performance was extensively tested on various signal classes. The results proved validity of theoretical assumptions and showed significant performance improvements when compared to other denoising methods.</p>
			</abstract>
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				<label>Keywords</label>
				<kwd>point-wise adaptation</kwd>
				<kwd>wavelet selection</kwd>
				<kwd>adaptive lifting scheme</kwd>
				<kwd>adaptive wavelet transform</kwd>
				<kwd>ICI rule</kwd>
				<kwd>signal denoising</kwd>
				<kwd>edge-preserving denoising</kwd>
			</kwd-group>
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