Detecting breast cancer using artificial intelligence: Convolutional neural network.

BACKGROUND

One of the most broadly founded approaches to envisage cancer treatment relies upon a pathologist's efficiency to visually inspect the appearances of bio-markers on the invasive tumor tissue section. Lately, deep learning techniques have radically enriched the ability of computers to identify objects in images fostering the prospect for fully automated computer-aided diagnosis. Given the noticeable role of nuclear structure in cancer detection, AI's pattern recognizing ability can expedite the diagnostic process.

OBJECTIVE

In this study, we propose and implement an image classification technique to identify breast cancer.

METHODS

We implement the convolutional neural network (CNN) on breast cancer image data set to identify invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC).

RESULT

The proposed CNN model after data augmentation yielded 78.4% classification accuracy. 16% of IDC (-) were predicted incorrectly (false negative) whereas 25% of IDC (+) were predicted incorrectly (false positive).

CONCLUSION

The results achieved by the proposed approach have shown that it is feasible to employ a convolutional neural network particularly for breast cancer classification tasks. However, a common problem in any artificial intelligence algorithm is its dependence on the data set. Therefore, the performance of the proposed model might not be generalized.