Breast Cancer Patients' Depression Prediction by Machine Learning Approach

Cancer Invest. 2017 Sep 14;35(8):569-572. doi: 10.1080/07357907.2017.1363892. Epub 2017 Sep 5.

Abstract

One of the most common cancer in females is breasts cancer. This cancer can has high impact on the women including health and social dimensions. One of the most common social dimension is depression caused by breast cancer. Depression can impairs life quality. Depression is one of the symptom among the breast cancer patients. One of the solution is to eliminate the depression in breast cancer patients is by treatments but these treatments can has different unpredictable impacts on the patients. Therefore it is suitable to develop algorithm in order to predict the depression range.

Keywords: breast cancer; depression; machine learning; prediction.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Algorithms
  • Breast Neoplasms / psychology*
  • Depression / diagnosis*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Machine Learning
  • Middle Aged
  • Models, Psychological
  • Quality of Life / psychology*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires