code: def load_preprocess_images(image_paths: List[str], image_size: tuple) -> List[np.ndarray]:
      
      image_size = image_size[1:]  # we do not need the number of channels
      images = []
      for image_path in image_paths:
          images.append(load_preprocess_image(image_path, image_size))
      return images
docs: Load and pre-process the images specified with absolute paths.
  
      :param image_paths: List of images specified with paths.
      :param image_size: Tuple to resize the image to (Channels, Height, Width)
      :return: A list of loaded images (numpy arrays).