Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Detection in Histopathology Images Using Machine Learning Techniques Without Deploying Feature Extraction

Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the common malignant diseases in female all over the world. Microscopic investigation of tissues in breast is essential for analysis of breast cancer. For detection of breast cancer, pathologist uses various magnificent stages for obtaining accurate diagnosis of biopsy images which is time consuming. Development in digital imaging techniques has helped in assessment of pathology images using machine learning and computerized methods which could computerize a few of the pathology stages in the diagnosis of breast cancer. This kind of automation can be helpful in achieving quick and exact results reducing the observers’ inconsistency, thus increasing the accuracy. In this work, a new method is proposed to categorize breast cancer histopathology images. The objective is to evaluate the robustness and accuracy of a classification system based on machine learning, to automatically identify invasive tumor on digitized images without extracting the features. Here, a new method is presented that employs machine learning classifiers for classification of invasive tumor on whole slide images. The accuracy of different classifiers varies from 80% to 85%, leaving scope for improvement. The aim is to gather different researchers in both machine learning and medical field to proceed toward this Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for classification of invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC).