Breast Cancer Diagnosis using Artificial Neural Networks with Extreme Learning Techniques

Breast cancer is the second cause of dead among women. Early detection followed by appropriate cancer treatment can reduce the deadly risk. Medical professionals can make mistakes while identifying a disease. The help of technology such as data mining and machine learning can substantially improve the diagnosis accuracy. Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) has been widely used in intelligent breast cancer diagnosis. However, the standard Gradient-Based Back Propagation Artificial Neural Networks (BP ANN) has some limitations. There are parameters to be set in the beginning, long time for training process, and possibility to be trapped in local minima. In this research, we implemented ANN with extreme learning techniques for diagnosing breast cancer based on Breast Cancer Wisconsin Dataset. Results showed that Extreme Learning Machine Neural Networks (ELM ANN) has better generalization classifier model than BP ANN. The development of this technique is promising as intelligent component in medical decision support systems.