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Our proposed method also incorporates the concept of symmetry in the window mask structures, resulting in efficient and easily implementable filters for real-time applications. The distinguishing point of these techniques compared to similar methods is that we employ a novel idea for calculating the mean of regular pixels rather than the existing used mean formula along with the median. An iterative procedure has also been provided to integrate the power of removing high-density noise. Moreover, we will explore the different approaches to image denoising and their effectiveness in removing noise from images. The symmetrical structure of this tool will help in the ease and efficiency of these techniques. The outputs are compared in terms of peak signal-to-noise ratio, the mean-square error and structural similarity values. It was found that our proposed methodologies outperform some well-known compared methods. 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