Background: One of the most broadly founded approaches to envisage cancer treatment relies upon a pathologist's efficiency to visually inspect the appearances of bio-markers on the invasive tumor tissue section. Lately, deep learning techniques have radically enriched the ability of computers to identify objects in images fostering the prospect for fully automated computer-aided diagnosis. Given the noticeable role of nuclear structure in cancer detection, AI's pattern recognizing ability can expedite the diagnostic process.
Objective: In this study, we propose and implement an image classification technique to identify breast cancer.
Methods: We implement the convolutional neural network (CNN) on breast cancer image data set to identify invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC).
Result: The proposed CNN model after data augmentation yielded 78.4% classification accuracy. 16% of IDC (-) were predicted incorrectly (false negative) whereas 25% of IDC (+) were predicted incorrectly (false positive).
Conclusion: The results achieved by the proposed approach have shown that it is feasible to employ a convolutional neural network particularly for breast cancer classification tasks. However, a common problem in any artificial intelligence algorithm is its dependence on the data set. Therefore, the performance of the proposed model might not be generalized.
Keywords: Convolutional neural network; artificial intelligence; breast cancer; deep learning; ductal carcinoma; machine learning.