Abstract
Breast cancer (BC) is currently the most common form of cancer diagnosed worldwide with an incidence estimated at 2.26 million in 2020. Additionally, BC is the leading cause of cancer death. Many subtypes of breast cancer exist with distinct biological features and which respond differently to various treatment modalities and have different clinical outcomes. To ensure that sufferers receive lifesaving patients-tailored treatment early, it is crucial to accurately distinguish dangerous malignant (ductal carcinoma, lobular carcinoma, mucinous carcinoma, and papillary carcinoma) subtypes of tumors from adenosis, fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumor, and tubular adenoma benign harmless subtypes. An excellent automated method for detecting malignant subtypes of tumors is desirable since doctors do not identify 10% to 30% of breast cancers during regular examinations. While several computerized methods for breast cancer classification have been proposed, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have demonstrated superior performance. In this work, we proposed an ensemble of four variants of DCNNs combined with the support vector machines classifier to classify breast cancer histopathological images into eight subtypes classes: four benign and four malignant. The proposed method utilizes the power of DCNNs to extract highly predictive multi-scale pooled image feature representation (MPIFR) from four resolutions (40×, 100×, 200×, and 400×) of BC images that are then classified using SVM. Eight pre-trained DCNN architectures (Inceptionv3, InceptionResNetv2, ResNet18, ResNet50, DenseNet201, EfficientNetb0, shuffleNet, and SqueezeNet) were individually trained and an ensemble of the four best-performing models (ResNet50, ResNet18, DenseNet201, and EfficientNetb0) was utilized for feature extraction. One-versus-one SVM classification was then utilized to model an 8-class breast cancer image classifier. Our work is novel because while some prior work has utilized CNNs for 2- and 4-class breast cancer classification, only one other prior work proposed a solution for 8-class BC histopathological image classification. A 6B-Net deep CNN model was utilized, achieving an accuracy of 90% for 8-class BC classification. In rigorous evaluation, the proposed MPIFR method achieved an average accuracy of 97.77%, with 97.48% sensitivity, and 98.45% precision on the BreakHis histopathological BC image dataset, outperforming the prior state-of-the-art for histopathological breast cancer multi-class classification and a comprehensive set of DCNN baseline models.
Funder
World Bank through the African Centre of Excellence Program hosted by Pan African Materials Institute
WPI Global Impact Fellowship Program
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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