Machine Learning Approaches to Predict Breast Cancer: Bangladesh Perspective

TL;DR

This paper compares multiple machine learning algorithms to predict breast cancer accurately, achieving up to 94% accuracy with Random Forest and XGBoost on a new dataset, aiming to improve early detection and diagnosis efficiency.

Contribution

It evaluates and compares the performance of five machine learning algorithms for breast cancer prediction on a new dataset, identifying the most accurate models.

Findings

Random Forest and XGBoost achieved 94% accuracy.

Decision tree, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes performed with lower accuracy.

The study demonstrates the effectiveness of ensemble methods in breast cancer prediction.

Abstract

Nowadays, Breast cancer has risen to become one of the most prominent causes of death in recent years. Among all malignancies, this is the most frequent and the major cause of death for women globally. Manually diagnosing this disease requires a good amount of time and expertise. Breast cancer detection is time-consuming, and the spread of the disease can be reduced by developing machine-based breast cancer predictions. In Machine learning, the system can learn from prior instances and find hard-to-detect patterns from noisy or complicated data sets using various statistical, probabilistic, and optimization approaches. This work compares several machine learning algorithm's classification accuracy, precision, sensitivity, and specificity on a newly collected dataset. In this work Decision tree, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, and XGBoost, these five machine learning approaches have been implemented to get the best performance on our dataset. This study focuses on finding the best algorithm that can forecast breast cancer with maximum accuracy in terms of its classes. This work evaluated the quality of each algorithm's data classification in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. And also compared with other published work on this domain. After implementing the model, this study achieved the best model accuracy, 94% on Random Forest and XGBoost.