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Nonlocal means (NLM) is a popular denoizing method which exploits usual redundancy present in an image to restore noise free image. It computes restored value of a pixel as weighted average of candidate pixels in a search window. In this article, we propose an improved version of the NLM algorithm which is modified in two ways. First, a robust threshold criterion is introduced, which helps selecting suitable pixels for participation in the restoration process. Second, the search window size is made adaptive using a window adaptation test based on the proposed threshold criterion. The modified NLM algorithm is named as improved adaptive nonlocal means (IANLM). An alternate implementation of IANLM is also proposed which exploits the image smoothness property to yield better denoizing performance. The computational burden is reduced significantly due to proposed modifications. Experiments are performed on simulated and real brain MR images at various noise levels. 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