Prediction of Breast Cancer Using AI-Based Methods

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Breast cancer has made its mark as the primary cause of female deaths and disability worldwide, making it a significant health problem. However, early diagnosis of breast cancer can lead to its effective treatment. The relevant diagnostic features available in the patient’s medical data may be used in an effective way to diagnose, categorize and classify breast cancer. Considering the importance of early detection of breast cancer in its effective treatment, it is important to accurately diagnose and classify breast cancer using diagnostic features present in available data. Automated techniques based on machine learning are an effective way to classify data for diagnosis. Various machine learning based automated techniques have been proposed by researches for early prediction/diagnosis of breast cancer. However, due to the inherent criticalities and the risks coupled with wrong diagnosis, there is a dire need that the accuracy of the predicted diagnosis must be improved. In this paper, we have introduced a novel supervised machine learning based approach that embodies Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Support Vector Machine, Artificial Neural Network and Multilayer Perception methods. Experimental results show that the proposed framework has achieved an accuracy of 99.12%. Results obtained after the process of feature selection indicate that both preprocessing methods and feature selection increase the success of the classification system.