A New Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for Automated Breast Cancer Detection

Abstract

breast cancer is reported as one of most common malignancy amongst women in the world. Early detection of this cancer is critical to clinical and epidemiologic for aiding in informing subsequent treatments. This study investigates automated breast cancer prediction using deep learning techniques. A new 19-layer deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model for detecting the benign breast tumors from malignant cancers was proposed and implemented. The experiments on BreaKHis dataset was conducted and K-fold Cross Validation technique are used for the model evaluation. The proposed 19-layer deep CNN based classifiers compared with conventional machine learning classifier, namely Support Vector Machine (SVM) and a state-of-the-art deep learning model, namely GoogLeNet in terms of Accuracy, Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curve (AUC), the Classification Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Squared Error (MSE) metrics. The results demonstrate that the proposed new model outperformed the other classifiers. The proposed model achieved an accuracy, AUC, MAE and MSE of 84.5%, 85.7%, 0.082, and 0.043, respectively.