Breast Cancer Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms

This paper presents a computer-aided design (CAD) system that detects breast cancers (BCs). BC detection uses random forest, AdaBoost, logistic regression, decision trees, naïve Bayes and conventional neural networks (CNNs) classifiers, these machine learning (ML) based algorithms are trained to predicting BCs (malignant or benign) on BC Wisconsin data-set from the UCI repository, in which attribute clump thickness is used as evaluation class. The effectiveness of these ML algorithms are evaluated in terms of accuracy and F-measure; random forest outperformed the other classifiers and achieved 99% accuracy and 99% F-measure.