# Classification of Breast Tumours Based on Histopathology Images Using Deep Features and Ensemble of Gradient Boosting Methods

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01380 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.01380/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 69 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Sep 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

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## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Towards More Transparent and Accurate Cancer Diagnosis with an Unsupervised CAE Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.11728/) (2023)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Early-stage diagnosis of breast cancer can significantly improve the efficiency of treatment. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems are widely adopted in this issue due to their reliability, accuracy and affordability. There are different imaging techniques for a breast cancer diagnosis; one of the most accurate ones is histopathology which is used in this paper. Deep feature transfer learning is used as the main idea of the proposed CAD system's feature extractor. Although 16 different pre-trained networks have been tested in this study, our main focus is on the classification phase. The Inception-ResNet-v2 which has both residual and inception networks profits together has shown the best feature extraction capability in the case of breast cancer histopathology images among all tested CNNs. In the classification phase, the ensemble of CatBoost, XGBoost and LightGBM has provided the best average accuracy. The BreakHis dataset was used to evaluate the proposed method. BreakHis contains 7909 histopathology images (2,480 benign and 5,429 malignant) in four magnification factors. The proposed method's accuracy (IRv2-CXL) using 70% of BreakHis dataset as training data in 40x, 100x, 200x and 400x magnification is 96.82%, 95.84%, 97.01% and 96.15%, respectively. Most studies on automated breast cancer detection have focused on feature extraction, which made us attend to the classification phase. IRv2-CXL has shown better or comparable results in all magnifications due to using the soft voting ensemble method which could combine the advantages of CatBoost, XGBoost and LightGBM together.