Feature Selection Based on Multi-Filters for Classification of Mammogram Images to Look for Signs of Breast Cancer

Abstract

The accuracy of classification results on mammogram images has a significant role in breast cancer diagnosis. Therefore, many stages consider finding the model has a high level of accuracy and minimizing the computing load, one of which is the accuracy in using the best feature. This needs to be prioritized considering that mammogram image has many features resulting from the mammogram extraction process. Our research has four stages: feature extraction, feature selection-multi filters, classification, and performance evaluation. Thus, in this research, we propose algorithms that can select the features by utilizing multiple filters simultaneously on the filter model for feature selection of mammogram images based on multi-filters/FSbMF. There are six feature selection algorithms with a filter approach (information gain, rule, relief, correlation, gini index, and chi-square) used in this research. Based on the testing result using 10-fold cross-validation, the features resulting from the FSbMF algorithm have the best performance based on the accuracy, recall, and precision from 72,63%, 70,38%, 75,01% to be 100%. Furthermore, the number of resulting features is the minimum because it results from intersection operation from the feature subsets resulting from the multi-filter.