Research Article

Predicting Breast Cancer Leveraging Supervised Machine Learning Techniques

Table 7

Comparison of machine learning algorithms on Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset.

AuthorYearDatasetImbalance handlingFeature selectionFeaturesClassifierValidation typeAccuracy achieved %

Wisconsin original breast cancer dataset (WOBC) [23]
Salama et al. [41]2012WOBCChi-square & PCA10J48 & MLP10-fold97.28%
Hamsagayathri & Sampath [42]2017WOBCFeature rankingRandom Forest10-fold96.70%
Our approach2020WOBCNormalization by standardizationCorrelation based selection & RFE8MLP5-fold98.20%
Wisconsin Prognostic breast cancer data (WPBC) [24]
Tintu and Paulin [43]2013WPBCManual removal of instancesFeature rankingFuzzy -means clustering4-fold97.13%
Khan et al. [44]2013WPBCYAGGA19Linear regression10-fold84.34%
Our approach2020WPBCNormalization by standardizationCorrelation-based selection and RFE16MLP5-fold98.33%