A Machine Learning validation to identify the difference between Cysts
and Malignant tumours in Breast Cancer
Abstract
One of the most common women’s tumours infest the breast. Various benign
disorders like cysts in a woman’s breast occur due to hormonal changes
and are at the risk of becoming malignant. Several thermal models are
reported to differentiate between normal and malignant tissues of the
breast. But no thermal model is reported in the study of the effect of
benign disorders on the literature to distinguish between benign and
malignant disorders in women’s breasts. An attempt has been made in this
paper to study the thermal disturbances caused by cysts and malignant
tumours in the fat tissues of a woman’s breast. The model is developed
for a two-dimensional steady-state case using penne’s bioheat equation
and incorporating parameters like thermal conductivity, blood mass flow
rate, and self-controlled metabolic heat generation. The appropriate
adiabatic boundary conditions have been framed for various environmental
conditions. The finite element method has been employed to obtain the
solution. The results have been obtained for different spherical-shaped
cysts and different depths of tissues in a hemispherical-shaped woman’s
breast. Furthermore, the comparison of thermal profiles for cysts and
malignant tumours in a woman’s breast has been performed. As a result, a
contrast in the thermal behaviour of cyst and malignant tumour in a
woman’s breast is observed, which can be helpful to distinguish between
the malignant tumour and cyst in a woman’s breast to prevent
false-positive test for malignant tumour. Accordingly, this study found
that various factors could affect cancer classification and prediction.
Therefore, in this study, Breast cancer data classification has been
done using three classification techniques which are Artificial Neural
Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest (R.F.);
to improve the performance of the model, trained the model with selected
features according to the analysis done.