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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ backbone2 = threshold_filter(b, 0.7)
 # extract the backbone keeping a fraction of edges(0.15)
 backbone3 = fraction_filter(b, 0.15)
 ```
-![Les Misérables original network and the extracted backbones](/examples/images/toy.png)
+![Les Misérables original network and the extracted backbones](https://gitlab.liris.cnrs.fr/coregraphie/netbone/-/raw/main/examples/images/toy.png)
 
 ## Citation
 Ali Yassin, Abbas Haidar, Hocine Cherifi et al. An Evaluation Tool for Backbone Extraction Techniques in Weighted Complex Networks, 19 May 2023, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2935871/v1]