def load_preprocess_images(image_paths: List[str], image_size: tuple) -> List[np.ndarray]:
    """
    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).
    """
    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