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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank the Investigation
Dean’s Office of Universidad Nacional Experimental
del T´achira, LOCTI grant PR0100401, and CDCHT
from Universidad de Los Andes (projects I-1075-07-
02B and NUTA C–24–07–02–C) for their support to
this research. Authors would also like to thank H. Le
Breton and D. Boulmier from the Centre CardioPneu-
mologique and M. Garreau from Laboratoire Traite-
ment signal et de l’image (LTSI) in Rennes, France
for providing the human MSCT database.
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