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January 1, 2025

Applying machine learning to breast cancer diagnosis: A high school student’s exploration using R

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MVM. VikramSSSaigopal Sathyamurthy

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Exploratory analysis identified logistic regression and random forest as effective in breast cancer diagnosis models, indicating potential for resource-constrained settings.

Key Points

  • Accuracy can be achieved in breast cancer diagnosis with fewer variables in machine learning models, demonstrating efficiency.
  • The random forest classifier and logistic regression delivered high performance in classifying tumors as malignant or benign.
  • Using the Wisconsin Breast Cancer Dataset, machine learning models were evaluated based on sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy.
  • This approach can improve early detection of breast cancer in regions with limited diagnostic resources.

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Vikram et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68af4eaead7bf08b1ead7281https://doi.org/10.59720/24-372
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