Breast cancer diagnosis using neural-based linear fusion strategies

Authors:
Yunfeng Wu;Cong Wang;S. C. Ng;Anant Madabhushi;Yixin Zhong
Affiliations:
School of Information Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Haidian District, Beijing, China;School of Information Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Haidian District, Beijing, China;School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ;School of Information Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Venue:
ICONIP'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Neural information processing - Volume Part III
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among women, and the early diagnosis is of significant clinical importance. In this paper, we describe several linear fusion strategies, in particular the Majority Vote, Simple Average, Weighted Average, and Perceptron Average, which are used to combine a group of component multilayer perceptrons with optimal architecture for the classification of breast lesions. In our experiments, we utilize the criteria of mean squared error, absolute classification error, relative error ratio, and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve to concretely evaluate and compare the performances of the four fusion strategies. The experimental results demonstrate that the Weighted Average and Perceptron Average strategies can achieve better diagnostic performance compared to the Majority Vote and Simple Average methods.