Breast Cancer Histological Image Classification with Multiple Features and Random Subspace Classifier Ensemble

Histological image is important for diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, we present a novel automatic breast cancer classification scheme based on histological images. The image features are extracted using the Curvelet Transform, statistics of Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and the Completed Local Binary Patterns (CLBP), respectively. The three different features are combined together and used for classification. A classifier ensemble approach, called Random Subspace Ensemble (RSE), are used to select and aggregate a set of base neural network classifiers for classification. The proposed multiple features and random subspace ensemble offer the classification rate 95.22% on a publically available breast cancer image dataset, which compares favorably with the previously published result 93.4%.

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