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At first, decomposing noise signal is performed adaptively into intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Then, ABC algorithm is utilized to determine a proper threshold shrinking IMF coefficients instead of traditional threshold function. Furthermore, a neighborhood search strategy is introduced into ABC algorithm to balance its exploration and exploitation ability. Simulation experiments are conducted on four benchmark signals, and a comparative study for the proposed method and state-of-the-art methods are carried out. The compared results demonstrate that signal to noise ratio (SNR) and root mean square error (RMSE) are obtained by the proposed method. 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