Machine Learning Techniques for Analyzing Survival Data of Breast Cancer Patients in Baghdad

Abstract

The Machine learning methods, which are one of the most important branches of promising artificial intelligence, have great importance in all sciences such as engineering, medical, and also recently involved widely in statistical sciences and its various branches, including analysis of survival, as it can be considered a new branch used to estimate the survival and was parallel with parametric, nonparametric and semi-parametric methods that are widely used to estimate survival in statistical research. In this paper, the estimate of survival based on medical images of patients with breast cancer who receive their treatment in Iraqi hospitals was discussed. Three algorithms for feature extraction were explained: The first principal component algorithm, The second kernel principal component algorithm, and The last is the faster ICA algorithm. Then the important features extracted in the three algorithms for features extraction will be entered into machine learning algorithms: The first K nearest neighbor algorithm, The second survival tree algorithm (or regression tree), and the last random survival forests algorithm. Two criteria for comparing the best models to estimate survival have relied on the MSE and the C-Index. The best model for estimating and predicting survival is the use of the fastest ICA algorithm with the random survival forest algorithm that gave the lowest amount to MSE and the highest value to the C-Index. Accordingly, we recommend doctors and medical professionals in Iraq adopt this model to estimate survival for patients with breast cancer.