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Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for Breast Cancer Prediction

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Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women and the second main cause of cancer death in females, which can be classified Benign or Malignant. Research and prevention on breast cancer have attracted more concern of researchers in recent years. On the other hand, the development of data mining methods provides an effective way to extract more useful information from complex database, and some prediction, classification and clustering can be made according to extracted information. In this study, to explore the relationship between breast cancer and some attributes so that the death probability of breast cancer can be reduced, five different classification models including Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Neural Network (NN) and Logistics Regression (LR) are used for the classification of two different datasets related to breast cancer: Breast Cancer Coimbra Dataset (BCCD) and Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database (WBCD). Three indicators including prediction accuracy values, F-measure metric and AUC values are used to compare the performance of these five classification models. comparative experiment analysis shows that random forest model can achieve better performance and adaptation than other four methods. Therefore, the model of this study is approved to possess clinical and referential values in practical applications.

DOI 10.11648/j.acm.20180704.15
Published in Applied and Computational Mathematics ( Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2018 )
Page(s) 212-216
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Keywords

Data Mining, Breast Cancer, Classification Models, Prediction

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  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  • School of Information, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China

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