Molecular Biomarkers & Diagnosis

Breast Cancer Detection using Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract

Nadeem Tariq

Breast cancer is very common and is considered as the second dangerous disease all over the world due to its death rate. Affected can survive if the disease diagnoses before the appearance of major physical changes in the body. Now a day, mammographic (X-ray of breast region) images are widely used for premature revealing of breast cancer. Aim of the proposed system is to design a Computer Aided Diagnosis system (CAD) used to distinguish between benign (non-cancerous) and malignant (cancerous) mammogram. CAD system are used to help radiologist to increase his diagnosis accuracy. In the proposed system, texture features from mammogram were calculated using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) along 0°, from the calculate features most effective features having large contribution to achieve the desired output were chosen and applied to Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for training and classification, as ANN is widely use in various field such as, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, machine learning and so on. For this research work mini-MIAS database is used and the overall sensitivity, specificity and accuracy achieved by using the proposed system is 99.3%, 100% and 99.4% respectively.