Deep Learning Techniques for Breast Cancer
Analysis: A Review
Subuhana N
Center for Artificial Intelligence
TKM College of Engineering Kollam
Kerala, India
20075@tkmce.ac.in
Aysha Rega S
Center for Artificial Intelligence
TKM College of Engineering Kollam
Kerala, India
20139@tkmce.ac.in
Sumod Sundar
Center for Artificial Intelligence
TKM College of Engineering Kollam
Kerala, India
sumodsundar@tkmce.ac.in
Abstract—Breast Cancer is one of the most frequent cancer
among females worldwide. Despite considering medical advance-
ments, Breast Cancer remains the world’s second-largest cause of
death; hence, early detection of this disease significantly impacts
mortality reduction. Breast abnormalities, on the other hand,
are complicated to diagnose. Deep learning is the most widely
employed technique for accurate diagnosis. Breast Cancer screen-
ing technologies such as mammography, ultrasound, and MRI
are used extensively. Using image processing and deep learning
techniques, the computer-assisted diagnosis help radiologists in
identifying problems more quickly. Deep learning algorithms
exhibit the best outcomes since they extract the features of images
deeply. Furthermore, radiomics analysis has the advantage of
being used as a non-invasive method of characterizing tumours
directly from clinical medical pictures. For cancer researchers,
forecasting the survival rate of Breast Cancer patients is a
severe challenge. The efficiency of Deep learning techniques has
obtained much attention to provide reliable findings. We have
done a brief review on current trends in Breast Cancer analytics
using Deep learning techniques. The results are presented in
tables to show how different strategies and their outcomes have
changed over time.
Index Terms—Breast Cancer, CNN, Deep learning, Radiomics,
ResNet
I. I NTRODUCTION
Breast Cancer is becoming more common around the world
every year. Breast Cancer is a severe threat to women’s
health; it is the leading cause of death from cancer in women.
According to the World Health Organization, this disease
claimed the lives of around 627,000 women in 2018 [1].
Breast Cancer develops when the tissues of the breast begin
to abnormal and uncontrollably divided. Breast Cancer can
be controlled if detected early. Many cases may be addressed
with early detection, which reduces the death rate. One of
the most used imaging methods for identifying Breast Can-
cer is mammography. Mammography, on the other hand, is
ineffective in dense breasts due to sensitivity and ionization
restrictions. Other modalities such as ultrasonography and
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are frequently used.
This heterogeneous disease is marked by a wide range of
molecular characteristics, clinical behaviour, morphological
appearance, and therapeutic responses. Invasive breast cancer
is also becoming increasingly difficult to anticipate and treat
due to its complexity and wide range of clinical outcomes
[7]. Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) is the most common
subtype of breast cancer, accounting for over 80% of all
cases [10]. The tissue regions having invasive regions must be
recognized from non-invasive tissues to detect IDC’s presence.
Identifying and classifying invasive and non-invasive tissues is
a critical clinical activity, and automated technologies can help
doctors diagnose patients faster, eliminate errors, and provide
better care and treatment. As a result, the capacity to more
correctly forecast the prognosis of Breast Cancer inpatients
and determining their life expectancy by helping doctors to
make informed decisions and guiding appropriate therapy.
Recent breakthroughs in medical imaging, particularly in arti-
ficial intelligence applied to image processing, show promise
in solving clinical constraints such as cancer detection, therapy
response assessment, and disease progression tracking. Many
medical imaging processing and analysis tasks have also been
successfully implemented using Deep learning. Deep learning
would be the best alternative for gene profiling which is much
faster and cheaper. Deep learning-based solutions, in general,
require a large dataset to achieve decent results. Radiomics
is used for efficient feature extraction, and it can be used in
classification techniques that work well with data on a smaller
scale. Radiomics is a generic method rather than traditional
statistical approaches (which frequently focus on a small
number of variables or features), as it may use a large number
of features as input to develop a predictive model. For reducing
false-positive rates, precisely identifying the malignancy of
lesions discovered in a screening scan is crucial. By extracting
and analyzing many quantitative picture features, radiomics
can distinguish malignant from benign tumours. Here we aim
to highlight the most cutting-edge deep learning techniques
in Breast Cancer techniques, including systems for diagnosis,
segmentation, classification and prognosis of Breast Cancer.
This paper is organized as follows: Section II briefly discusses
different techniques used to diagnose, diagnose, diagnose,
and classify breast tumours. Section III presents the various
Breast Cancer datasets and it is dimensionality features. An
exhaustive discussion on the advantages and limitations of
various automated techniques in Breast Cancer diagnosis is
carried out and summarized in Section IV.
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