Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 3

Determination of breast cancer using data mining techniques

1Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science, Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal, Tamilnadu, India

2Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Sriram Engineering College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

*Correspondence author: R Roseline E-mail: roseprabhu5@gmail.com

Online published on 16 August, 2018.

Abstract

Breast cancer emerged quickly to women above 40 years which cause death. Whereas other cancers has less compared with breast cancer, similarly it spreads among rural and urban areas. Smoking women's affect more than 30–40%, long-term smokers has increase in risk factor on the other side. The utilization of machine learning and data mining approach's has changed the entire procedure of breast malignancy verdict and prediction. Breast Cancer verdict recognizes kindhearted from dangerous breast knots and Breast Cancer diagnosis predicts when Breast Cancer is probably going to repeat in patients that have had their tumors extracted. The proposal is to compare a better solution for analyzing breast cancer using data mining techniques and which ensures high accuracy. The disclosure of the endurance rate or survivability of a specific disease is conceivable by extricating the information from the information identified with that disease. Measurable learning and data mining, can build up the relationship of the factors to the result. The major aim of this research is to discover the overview of the present research being approved out utilizing the data mining techniques to improve the breast cancer determination. Mostly, it discusses about the performance of conventional the classification strategies C4.5, ID3, C5.0, Apriori, and Naive Bayes in breast cancer investigation. The classification process begins with statistical data fetched from healthcares, utilizes Weka software to analyze results and predicting endurance rate of breast cancer patients. Based on Experimental evaluations, C5.0 classifier enhances accuracy 4.56%, and reduced the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) 0.141 and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) 0.155 of the proposed C5.0 classifier compared than existing classifiers.

Keywords

Data mining techniques, breast cancer, classification, Weka software, diagnosis and prediction, C5.0, ID3, APRIORI, C4.5, and Naive Bayes