Classification of Breast Cancer Cell Images using Multiple Convolution Neural Network Architectures

Abstract

Abstract: Breast cancer is a malignant tumor that affects women. It is the most prevalent cancer in women, affecting about 10% of all women at any point in their lives. The development of breast cancer begins in the lobules or ducts of the cells. Early detection and prevention are the best ways to stop this cancer from spreading. In this study, five Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models are used to process image data of breast cells. Alex Net, InceptionV3, GoogLeNet, VGG19 and Exception models are used for the classification of Invasive Ductal Carcinoma, IDC and Non-Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (Non-IDC) cells. The models are trained and tested at different epochs to record the learning rate. It is observed from the study that with higher epochs, the data loss decreases and accuracy increases. The accuracy of InceptionV3 and Exception is 92.48% and 90.72% respectively. Likewise, VGG19 and Alex Net have fairly close accuracy of 94.83% and 96.74%. However, GoogLeNet dominates over the other implemented models with the highest accuracy of 97.80%. The GoogLeNet model performs with high accuracy and precision in detecting IDC cells responsible for breast cancer.