Early Breast Cancer Detection Utilizing Artificial Neural Network

Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the most dangerous cancer diseases for women in worldwide. A Computeraided diagnosis system is very helpful for radiologist for diagnosing micro calcification patterns earlier and faster than typical screening techniques. Maximum breast cancer cells are eventually form a lump or mass called a tumor. Moreover, some tumors are cancerous and some are not cancerous. The cancerous tumors are called malignant and non-cancerous tumors are called benign. The benign tumors are not dangerous to health. But the unchecked malignant tumors have the ability to spread in other organs of the body. For that early detection of benign and malignant tumor is important for confining the death of breast cancer. In these research study different neural networks such as, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) Neural Network, Jordan/Elman Neural Network, Modular Neural Network (MNN), Generalized Feed-Forward Neural Network (GFFNN), Self-Organizing Feature Map (SOFM) Neural Network, Support Vector Machine (SVM) Neural Network, Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) are used for classifying breast cancer tumor. And compare the results of these networks to find the best neural network for detecting breast cancer. The networks are tested on Wisconsin breast cancer (WBC) database. Finally, the comparing result showed that Probabilistic Neural Network shows the best detection result than other networks.