2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Using Data Mining Techniques to Support Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Authors : Joana Diz, Goreti Marreiros, Alberto Freitas
Published in: New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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More than ever, in breast cancer research, many computer aided diagnostic systems have been developed in order to reduce false-positives diagnosis. In this work, we present a data mining based approach which might support oncologists in the process of breast cancer classification and diagnose. A reliable database with 410 images was used containing microcalcifications, masses and also normal tissue findings. We applied two feature extraction techniques, specifically the gray level co-occurrence matrix and the gray level run length matrix, and for classification purposes several data mining classifiers were also used. The results revealed great percentages of positive predicted value (approximately 70%) and very good accuracy values in terms of distinction of mammographic findings (>65%) and classification of BI-RADS
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scale (>75%). The best predictive method and the best performance on the distinction of microcalcifications found was the Random Forest classifier.