The Use of Modified K-Means Algorithm to Enhance the Performance of Support Vector Machine in Classifying Breast Cancer
Wathiq Laftah Al-Yaseen, Ammar Jehad, Qusay Abdullah Abed, Ali Kadhum Idrees
Abstract
Breast cancer has been recently considered as one of the broadly spread diseases that causes death among women. Early disease diagnosis is a critical aim in building the treatment policies and is extremely related to safety of patient. Therefore, there is a necessity for computer aided detection (CAD) in order to provide accurate and rapid diagnosis for breast cancer. Recently, many classification models utilizing machine learning approaches have been adopted and modified to diagnose breast cancer disease. Moreover, the performance of each model depends on different compositions such as the number and type of data features and the parameters of model. In order to enhance the performance of classification model, this research proposes a model using modified K-means algorithm to create a new training dataset of breast cancer which can highly improve the performance of support vector machine model. A modified K-means algorithm is also proposed to build a high quality training dataset that contributes significantly to reduce the training time of classifiers, and improve the performance of classifier. The proposed model handles the noise and irregularity in data and produce high quality dataset which represents all the cases of disease. The two recognized datasets Wisconsin Breast Cancer (WBC) and Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer (WDBC) have been used to examine and appraise the performance of the proposed model. The experimental results show that the proposed model has a significant performance compared to other previous works and with accuracy level of 98.067%, sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 94.811%, precision of 97.011% and finally with area under the curve related to the receiver operating characteristic of 97.406%.