Integrating deep and handcrafted features for enhanced decision-making assistance in breast cancer diagnosis on ultrasound images
摘要
The classification of breast cancer has emerged as a significant concern in the healthcare sector in recent times. This is primarily due to its status as the second leading cause of cancer-related fatalities among women. Prior research in the field of breast cancer classification has mainly focused on either traditional Machine Learning (ML) based models or employing Deep Learning (DL) models. However, both approaches solely fail to capture the complete spectrum of features necessary for accurate classification. Therefore, this paper introduces a classification model named Hybrid Breast Cancer Prediction System (HBCPS), which utilizes a combination of features derived from deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model and handcrafted features, to improve classification performance. The proposed HBCPS uses the pre-trained ResNet50 network to extract the deep features, while the handcrafted features are obtained using Histogram Orientation Gradient (HOG). For classification the proposed approach uses Support Vector Machine (SVM). In addition, the proposed method integrates the Block Matching 3D(BM3D) denoising filter. This filter efficiently reduces multiplicative noise such as speckle noise from Breast Ultrasound (BUS) images, resulting in improved image quality. This enhancement technique has significantly contributed to improve the overall performance of the system. The proposed framework is evaluated using a widely used Breast Ultrasound Image (BUSI) dataset. The proposed HBCPS exhibited satisfactory performance with an accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, specificity, and AUC values of 89.02%, 87.67%, 87.17%, 87.36%, 83.87%, and 0.8717, respectively. These metrics indicate the robustness and reliability of the proposed method and offer a comprehensive framework for breast cancer classification using BUS images.