Breast Cancer Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques

Abstract

Abstract: Cancer is one of the most prominent cause of fatalities around the world, accounting over 1 crore deaths in past year out of which 22.6% deaths were due to Breast cancer (BC). BC is the most common type of cancer among women, it accounts for 14.7 % of cancer cases in India. Multiple pieces of research have been conducted over the early detection of BC that can help begin treatment on time thus decreasing the mortality rate. Out of the total diagnosed, only about 86% are diagnosed correctly. Biopsy images of cells have a risk of false detection which may endanger the life of a person. There is a dire need of discovering new alternative methods that have an easy implementation with different data sets, are cost-effective, reliable, and safer, that can give an accurate prediction. This paper proposes a model combined with several Machine Learning algorithms(ML) that are Decision Trees, Artificial Neural Network, K-Nearest Neighbour, Support Vector Machine for an effective and accurate breast cancer diagnosis. Index Terms - Breast Cancer; Breast Cancer Detection; Machine Learning Key Words: Breast Cancer (BC); Artificial neural networks (ANN); Wisconsin breast cancer data set.