An Efficient System for Early Diagnosis of B reast Cancer using Support Vector Machine

Abstract

There are many lives lost every year due to cancer and among them; among the women breast cancer causes the most deaths. For the better prediction of breast cancer risks, numerous studies have been undertaken incorporating data mining techniques. 1.1 million Cases of breast cancer were reported in 2004. It has been seen over the years that, that the numbers increase with the increasing industrialization and urbanization. It was earlier observed that mostly affected countries with breast cancer were high income countries such as America but now a days it is also very serious issue in middle and low income countries like Africa, Latin America and Asia. The main objective of this paper is to create a model which can more efficiently and accurately categorize a cancer as malignant or benevolent based on interpretation of the numerical values of attributes of ultrasound images of breast cancer. In this paper various data mining algorithm used like SVM(Support Vector Machine) for prediction and compared it with various other algorithms such as CART, Logistic Regression, KNN for the best training and test accuracy. SVM algorithm gives the most accurate results among the rest algorithm.