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Date Submitted: May 3, 2020
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Early Breast Cancer Prediction Using Dermatoglyphics: Data Mining Pilot Study in a General Hospital in Iran
ABSTRACT
Background:
Dermatoglyphics is the study of skin patterns on hands and feet. It has been shown in some studies that specific finger patterns could be a risk factor of breast cancer. There are several studies using data mining methods to evaluate the risk of breast cancer; while there is no or little study that evaluates finger patterns with data mining for breast cancer risk prediction.
Objective:
This study aims to evaluate fingerprint patterns along with other easy-to-obtain features in the risk of breast cancer.
Methods:
A dataset containing 462 records includes female patients in Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran, Iran was obtained. The dataset has comprised of age, menstruation age, menopause age, and situation, has a child, age at first live birth, family history of breast cancer, and figure print patterns features of hands. The factors weight was determined by the Information Gain index. Predictive models were built once without fingerprint features and once with fingerprint features using Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree, Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Deep Learning classifiers.
Results:
The most important factor determining breast cancer were age, having a child, menopause situation, and menopause age. The best performance belongs to the RF model with accuracy and AUC of 84.43% and 0.923 respectively. The fingerprint patterns feature increased the RF accuracy from 79.44% to 84.43%.
Conclusions:
An early breast cancer screening model could be built with the use of data mining methods. The fingerprint patterns could increase the performance of these models. The Random Forest model could be used. The results of such models could be used in designing apps for self-screening breast cancer.
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