Machine learning as an indicator for breast cancer prediction

Abstract

Affecting roughly around 10 percent of the women across the globe in some stage of their lives,Breast Cancer has stood out to be one of the most feared and frequently occurring cancers at present among women[1]. While the cure for this cancer is now available in almost all first world and some of the third world nations,the main dilemma takes place when the cancer can not be correctly identified at the very initial stages. Machine Learning,in this field has proved to play a vital role in predicting diseases such as cancers alike.Classification and data mining methods so far have been reliant and an effective way to classify data.Especially in medical field,these methods have been used to predict and to make decisions.In this paper,we have successfully used six classification techniques in the form of Decision Tree, K-Neighbors, Linear Discriminant Analysis(LDA), Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machine(SVM)on the Wiscons in Breast Cancer(original)data sets,both before and after applying Principal Component Analysis.The main objective is to assess the correctness in classifying data with respect to efficiency and effectiveness of each algorithm in terms of accuracy,precision,recall,specificity and F1 Score. Experimental results have shown that Logistic Regression(recal score=1.000)and Support Vector Analysis(recall score =1.000)with PCA performs better when it comes to Breast Cancer Prediction for his data set. Keywords:Classification;Decision tree;Machine learning;Support vector machine; Principal Component Analysis,Recall,10-Fold cross-validation