Original Article


Case-Based Approach to Detect Cancer in Women with Curative Intent at Beginning

Authors: Imran Majeed, Ahmad Imran, Mazhar Hussain, Mubahir Ali, Tuba Zainab, Tayyaba Dawood, Iqra Danish, Maryam Zeb, Mehreen Farooq, Fatima Amjad, Razia Faqeer, Maria Abdullah, Kashif Hameed, Hamza Waheed
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37184/jlnh.2959-1805.2.14
Year: 2024
Volume: 2
Received: Nov 11, 2023
Revised: Feb 27, 2024
Accepted: Feb 27, 2024
Corresponding Auhtor: Imran Majeed (bisimran@gmail.com)
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License


Abstract

Background: Breast malignant growth is among the most widely recognized ladies’ diseases and a significant reason for disease-delivered ladies’ deaths all over the planet. Mammograms have a high pace of missed growths, or “misleading negatives.” Over 10% of threatening cancers in mammograms cannot be identified in ladies more than 50 years.

Objective: To Increase the detection rate of mammography for detection of early breast cancer.

Methods: The research work was conducted during 2022-2023 at Radiation Oncology, Allama Iqbal Medical College/Jinnah Hospital, Lahore with data of thousands of cases. Case-based reasoning (CBR) is a strategy to apply problem solution data of currently tackled issues by the arrangement of coming issues.

Results: CBR characterizes benign cases with precision and recall of equivalent to 0.87 and 0.7 and for malignant cases are 0.9 and precision of

0.75 respectively. Our objective is to improve the detection of cancer with principal component analysis of characteristics, precision enhanced by 20% and recall by 11% for malignant cases and by 15% and 28.5% for benign cases respectively. The outcomes acquired by CBR are compared with multiple Knowledge-based algorithms.

Conclusion: The CBR-based approach delivered improved results when contrasted with the wide range of various strategies regarding precision, recall, misleading negative rate, genuine positive rate and F-measure for dangerous cases.

INTRODUCTION

Breast malignant growth is liable for a greater part of disease-related deaths among ladies all over the planet. A total of 16% of disease-related deaths in the advanced nations are brought about by Breast malignant growths and 12% of all related deaths are credited to it in non- industrial nations. Developed nations revealed up to two percent expansion in Breast disease risk annually [1- 4]. Restricted information is accessible from emerging nations. Data from malignant growth vaults demonstrate that age-normalized occurrence rates are expanding at an increasing rate in remote regions of emerging nations. The monetary and way of life variations are creating increasing frequency of Breast cancer in developing nations. It is expected that in the future number of breast cancer cases will surge at a high rate. It is critical to detect breast malignant growth in the beginning phase for curative treatment and a high survival rate. For a country like Pakistan which is restricted in facilities, by and large, the cancer is diagnosed at a later stage. This research has the objective to detect breast changes with the use of computer algorithms to treat breast cancer with curative intent [3-7].

Mammography has been found useful in increasing the survival of breast cancer patients with the detection of abnormalities. Mammography is a compelling technique to recognize Breast disease in the beginning phases throughout the previous decades. Amammogram presents an X-ray beam picture of the breast. Mammograms are performed for screening or diagnostic purposes and expertise is required to evaluate these images. The computer-aided research helps the radiologists to interpret the medical images.

The modern advances in research lead towards modernized frameworks which are used as information sources for numerous boundaries including thick unpredictable regions, toughness regions and bunches of little calcifications. Radiologists in general cases can’t unquestionably report disease based on mammograms just because the malignant and benign developments can resemble the other the same.

The current research involves knowledge base classification for grouping life-threatening and benign cases for a neighbourhood data set of cancer-affected

people gathered from Jinnah Clinic Lahore. The data set

comprised of thousands breast cancer-diagnosed women. This research has used multiple artificial intelligence classification algorithms to detect the early presentation of malignancy in breasts. The paper investigates the

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correlation of exhibition of the previously mentioned procedures for crude information against pre-handled information utilizing head part investigation.

Related Work

Lodwick et al. [8] started an electronic examination of chest radiographs. Suhail et al. [9] concentrated on anomalies in mammograms. Qin et al. [10] have evaluated numerous procedures applied in the discovery of Breast disease utilizing a multi-methodology approach. Loizidou [11] dealt with the PC-supported location of miniature calcification in mammography. Sharaf-El-Deen et al. [12] dealt with CBR and rule- based thinking mix for the identification of malignant growth. In medication, CBR applications are developing due to its case-based methodology of issue-taking care. Zia et al. [13] investigated the case recovery period of CBR for Breast disease information. Resmini et al. [14] explored the computer-aided diagnosis using breast thermography. The reason for CBR was set somewhere near the Powerful memory hypothesis (Riesbeck [15]) and made sense of the intuitive job of figuring out, learning, and memory, which can further develop an understanding of the arrangement of an issue. CBR is a portrayal [16] of a choice emotionally supportive network. Viveros-Melo et al. [17] concentrated on the job of CBR in pursuing choices between medication. Bentaiba-Lagrid et al. [18] involved a CBR way to deal with supervised classification in the medical field.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS

Case-Based Approach

Case-based Approach is a strategy where prior encounters give thinking to arrangement development [19-22]. In this type of critical thinking, the similitude of the current issue is determined with the current data set and arrangements of comparative issues clear the path for new arrangement [23, 24]. Issue arrangement matches contribute to their involvement with the information base as cases. On the appearance of an original issue, its correlation is presented with each defence on the off chance that base and when significant likeness is acknowledged between new issues and cases on the off chance that base after matching computations, the cases are considered for conceiving an answer. Different comparability measurements are utilized for this reason, and their choice relies fair and square of precision required and space related to the issue. CBR frameworks cycle in stages (Fig. 1).

Recover

Case recovery is a course of recovering most comparative cases included in the arranged database. It incorporated the ID of applicable mammogram

Fig. (1): Case Base Approach.

highlights. Framework sifted through the immaterial highlights of the issue. Matching recovers the most sensible arrangement of comparable instances of Breast disease by utilizing pertinent and powerful elements separated from breast images. For this reason, three strategies including Manhattan distance, I/O similitude measure and Euclidean distance were utilized.

Reuse

Arrangement related to closest neighbours is used to recover the arrangement of the experiment. Numerous arrangement calculations (weighted normal or number juggling normal, and so on) can be utilized for computing the arrangement of new cases.

Modify

To devise a better solution, modifications can be made to the arrangement of the ongoing case. Transformation interaction ought to be restricted and precise to get benefits from a case-based thinking philosophy.

Hold

Extension of the database can be done by retaining the breast new problem-solution pair. The recent issue arrangement must be utilized as a wellspring of knowledge. The arrangement is listed and coordinated to bestow recent information to the dataset.

List of Capabilities

We utilized the experienced imaging subject matter experts and chose the highlights given BI-RAD dictionary universally acknowledged for the order of Breast malignant growth. Eight highlights were extricated. Calcification Morphology (CM), Calcification Distribution (D), Age, Calcification Number (CN), Mass Size, Mass Margin, Mass Density and Mass Shapeare utilized as highlights. The elements were dissected regarding standard deviation and change, normal, least and most extreme (Tables 1 and 2).