Title
Highly reliable breast cancer diagnosis with cascaded ensemble classifiers
Abstract
Accuracy and reliability are two important issues in computer assisted breast cancer diagnosis. In this paper, a new cascade Random Subspace ensembles scheme with reject options is proposed for automatic breast cancer diagnosis. The diagnosis system is built as a serial fusion of two different Random Subspace classifier ensembles with rejection options to enhance the classification reliability. The first ensemble consists of a set of Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers that converts the original K-class classification problem into a number of K 2-class problems. The second ensemble consists of a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) ensemble, that focuses on the rejected samples from the first ensemble. For both of the ensembles, the reject option is implemented by relating the consensus degree from majority voting to a confidence measure, and abstaining to classify ambiguous samples if the consensus degree is lower than some threshold. Using a microscopic breast biopsy image dataset from Israel Institute of Technology and benchmark datasets from UCI, promising results are obtained using the proposed system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252547
IJCNN
Keywords
Field
DocType
classification reliability,rejection options,k2-class problems,computer assisted breast cancer diagnosis,k-class classification problem,accuracy,multilayer perceptron ensemble,microscopic breast biopsy image dataset,israel institute of technology,cascaded ensemble classifiers,random subspace classifier ensembles,svm,multilayer perceptrons,support vector machine classifiers,cancer,image classification,majority voting,confidence measure,uci,mlp,cascade random subspace ensembles scheme,support vector machines,medical image processing,breast cancer,reliability
Subspace topology,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Random subspace method,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Classifier (linguistics),Majority rule,Breast biopsy,Perceptron,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-4393 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-1489-3
978-1-4673-1489-3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yungang Zhang18710.05
Bai-ling Zhang251750.49
Frans Coenen31283131.80
Wenjin Lu48410.79