New approach to breast cancer CAD using partial least squares and kernel-partial least squares

Walker H. Land Jr.; John Heine; Mark Embrechts; Tom Smith; Robert Choma; Lut Wong

doi:10.1117/12.593112

29 April 2005 New approach to breast cancer CAD using partial least squares and kernel-partial least squares

Walker H. Land Jr., John Heine, Mark Embrechts, Tom Smith, Robert Choma, Lut Wong

Proceedings Volume 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.593112
Event: Medical Imaging, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Breast cancer is second only to lung cancer as a tumor-related cause of death in women. Currently, the method of choice for the early detection of breast cancer is mammography. While sensitive to the detection of breast cancer, its positive predictive value (PPV) is low, resulting in biopsies that are only 15-34% likely to reveal malignancy. This paper explores the use of two novel approaches called Partial Least Squares (PLS) and Kernel-PLS (K-PLS) to the diagnosis of breast cancer. The approach is based on optimization for the partial least squares (PLS) algorithm for linear regression and the K-PLS algorithm for non-linear regression. Preliminary results show that both the PLS and K-PLS paradigms achieved comparable results with three separate support vector learning machines (SVLMs), where these SVLMs were known to have been trained to a global minimum. That is, the average performance of the three separate SVLMs were Az = 0.9167927, with an average partial Az (Az90) = 0.5684283. These results compare favorably with the K-PLS paradigm, which obtained an Az = 0.907 and partial Az = 0.6123. The PLS paradigm provided comparable results. Secondly, both the K-PLS and PLS paradigms out performed the ANN in that the Az index improved by about 14% (Az ≈ 0.907 compared to the ANN Az of ≈ 0.8). The "Press R squared" value for the PLS and K-PLS machine learning algorithms were 0.89 and 0.9, respectively, which is in good agreement with the other MOP values.

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Walker H. Land Jr., John Heine, Mark Embrechts, Tom Smith, Robert Choma, and Lut Wong "New approach to breast cancer CAD using partial least squares and kernel-partial least squares", Proc. SPIE 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Processing, (29 April 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.593112

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