An Enhanced Feature Selection Approach based on Mutual Information for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Nawel Zemmal, Nabiha Azizi, Amel Ziani, Nacer Eddine Benzebouchi, Monther Aldwairi · 2019
Breast cancer is the most feared disease in the female population. Early detection plays an important role to improve prognosis. Mammography is the best examination for the detection of breast cancer. However, in some cases, reading mammograms is difficult for radiologists. For this reason, several researches have been conducted to develop Computer Aided Diagnosis tools (CAD) for this disease which aims to interpret mammography images. This paper investigates a new CAD system based on Transductive scheme and Mutual Information for breast abnormalities diagnosis. In the proposed method, a feature vector contains a combination of two features extraction method: Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix and local Binary Pattern. In the next step, a novel scheme combining Mutual Information and Correlation-based feature selection was applied for selecting the most relevant features. Finally, the classification was achieved using a Transductive Support Vector Machine classifier. The effectiveness of the proposed CAD is examined on the DDSM dataset using classification accuracy, recall and precision. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed CAD system is clinically significant and can be used to classify the abnormalities of the breast.