Affiliations: [a] School of Computing SASTRA Deemed University Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu, India
| [b] CSE, Viswajyothi College of Engineering & Technology, Vazhakulam, Kerala
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Corresponding author. Suriya Praba, School of Computing SASTRA Deemed University Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur-613401, Tamilnadu, India. E-mail: suriyapraba@cse.sastra.edu.
Abstract: Cancer is a prevalent disease which comes in several forms. The need of the hour in cancer research is to be able to diagnose cancer in its early stages. The furthermost common forms of cancer among women us breast cancer. In recent times, there has been a drastic increase in the number of breast cancer cases among women. As a wide range of medical data is available in electronic form and with easy access to Machine Learning(ML) techniques disease progression risk evaluation has been made easier. These ML tools can aid in giving us complex insights from the massive amounts of available data. Some of the techniques used for developing predictive models for perfect decision making in cancer research are Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Bayesian Networks (BNs), Support Vector Machines (SVMs), and Decision Trees (DTs). Although it is acceptable that ML is used to predict cancer progression, we need some level of validation. In this paper, we have come up with a review of several ML methods in modelling cancer progression. We discuss several predictive models based on supervised ML techniques and the inputs given by users, along with the data available. The results that were obtained from Logistic Regression show us that this method gave a significantly higher accuracy than most other classifiers. The best accuracy is 98.2%, however, the best precision and recall is 100 and 98.60% correspondingly.
Keywords: Machine learning, cancer susceptibility, predictive models, feature
selection techniques, breast cancer
