“…The comparisons with the 3D extensions (modifications) of recently introduced switching median filters are provided as well, including order-statistics approaches (ICM and MICM) (Park and Kurz, 1996), local contrast probability (LCP) approach (Beghdadi and Khellaf, 1997), edge-detecting switching median (EDSM) (Zhang and Karim, 2002), CWM switching-based median (CWMMF) (Chen and Wu, 2001), and variance-based switching median (VSMF) .…”