Classification of Breast Lesions on Mammogram Images using Monarch Butterfly Optimization and Support Vector Machine

Abstract

Currently, breast cancer affects many women worldwide. In recent years, many Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) model have been developed for early diagnosis of breast cancer. An efficient CAD model is suggested to identify mammogram images as benign versus malignant in this study. The suggested CAD model constitutes four stages which are image acgusition, segmentation, feature extraction, feature selection and classification process. Gray level run matrix (GLRM) approach is used for feature extraction, while monarch butterfly optimization (MBO) for feature selection process. Support vector machine (SVM) algorithm is preferred for classification process. The suggested model has been tested on a private mammographic dataset. The suggested model (GLRM+MBO+SVM) shows an 0.944 of accuracy for breast lesion classification. Compared with similar studies, our proposed model showed good classification results for the breast lesion classification process.