Yuwathi: Early Detection of Breast Cancer and Classification of Mammography Images Using Machine Learning

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) data and records, breast cancer is one of the most common diseases among women. As a result of the mutations of the genes within a cell, the cell starts growing uncontrollably and rapidly. Such a condition is known as cancer. Cancer tumors can be categorized into two major categories, benign and malignant. However, there is no existing solution in practice to automate early breast cancer identification and risk prediction using medical images (Mammograms). This paper discusses automating breast cancer detection, breast density identification, risk prediction, and solution suggestion using machine learning, image processing, and computer vision techniques. All the mentioned features can be accessed using the application "YUWATHI", and a user can take advantage of this application by using a smartphone also a web application. The objectives of the present study are mammographic mass detection without user intervention, identifying pectoral muscles and removing them, training a machine learning model to identify the future risk of breast cancers by obtaining clinical reports from the OCR application and suggesting solutions for the above problems using a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system that helps doctors to make decisions swiftly. The algorithms used for breast cancer detection, breast density classification, and future breast cancer risk prediction are Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), CNN and Logistic Regression with the accuracies 97.32%, 71.97% 74.76%, respectively.