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However, CFRP can be subject to various types of damage, such as delamination, matrix cracking, or fiber breakage, requiring nondestructive evaluation to ensure structural integrity. In this context, damage imaging algorithms are important for assessing the condition of this material. This paper presents signal and image processing methods for delamination characterization of thin CFRP plates using eddy current testing (ECT). The measurement system included an inductive ECT probe with three coil elements, which has the characteristic of allowing eddy currents to be induced in the specimen with two different configurations. In this study, the peak amplitude of the induced voltage in the receiver element and the phase shift between the excitation and receiver signals were considered as damage-sensitive features. Using the ECT probe, C-scans were performed in the vicinity of delamination defects of different sizes. The dimensions and shape of the ECT probe were considered by applying the erosion method in the damage imaging process. Different thresholding approaches were also investigated to extract the size of the defective areas. To evaluate the impact of this application, a comparison is made between the results obtained before and after thresholding using histogram analysis. 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