Robustness statistical graphs for the detection and diagnosis of some lung disease

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The project was carried with the collaboration from Dr. Hamidah Shaban, Specialist Medical Consultant, Institute of Respiratory Disease, Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Omar Mohd. Rijal from The Institute of Mathematical Science, Faculty of Science, University Malaya and his Bachelor of Science (Statistics) student, Ms. Ong Ee Ling while undertake the SJES 3483: 2 Semester Statistics Project (8 credit). A copy of the SJES 3483 project thesis that was submitted to the Institute of Mathematical Science, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, is enclosed. A paper titled ‘A Feature Detection Method For Pulmonary Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Using Conventional Chest Radiographs’ was presented at the 12th European Signal Processing Conference in Vienna, Austria in September 2004. The paper was published in the conference proceedings.