Intellectual detection and validation of automated mammogram breast cancer images by multi-class SVM using deep learning classification

Abstract Breast cancer is a crucial reason for death in females. Early recognition of this disease with the assistance of mammography reduces the death rate. Deep learning (DL) is an approach being utilized and requested by radiologist that assists them in making an accurate diagnosis and helps to improve outcome predictions. This paper includes a new approach, applied on the Mini-MIAS dataset of 322 images, involving a pre-processing method and inbuilt feature extraction using K-mean clustering for Speed-Up Robust Features (SURF) selection. A new layer is added at the classification level, which carries out a ratio of 70% training to30% testing of the deep neural network and Multiclass Support Vector Machine (MSVM). The outcome described here demonstrates that the accuracy rate of the proposed automated DL method using K-mean clustering with MSVM is better than using a decision tree model. Experimental results show that the average accuracy (ACC) rates of the three classes, i.e., normal, benign and malignant cancer, using the proposed method are95%, 94% and 98%, respectively. The increased sensitivity rate is 3%, specificity is 2%, and Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) area is 0.99 using SVM compared to the Multi-Layer Perception (MLP) and J48+K-mean clustering WEKA manual approach. A 10-fold cross validation was used, and the obtained results for the Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbour (KNN), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and Decision Tree were 96.9%, 93.8%, 89.7% and 88.7%, respectively.