AISAC: An artificial immune system for associative classification applied to breast cancer detection

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Abstract

Early breast cancer diagnosis is crucial, as it can prevent further complications and save the life of the patient by treating the disease at its most curable stage. In this paper, we propose a new artificial immune system model for associative classification with competitive performance for breast cancer detection. The proposed model has its foundations in the biological immune system; it mimics the detection skills of the immune system to provide correct identification of antigens. The Wilcoxon test was used to identify the statistically significant differences between our proposal and other classification algorithms based on the same bio-inspired model. These statistical tests evidenced the enhanced performance shown by the proposed model by outperforming other immune-based algorithms. The proposed model proved to be competitive with respect to other well-known classification models. In addition, the model benefits from a low computational cost. The success of this model for classification tasks shows that swarm intelligence is useful for this kind of problem, and that it is not limited to optimization tasks.

Original languageEnglish
Article number515
JournalApplied Sciences (Switzerland)
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Artificial immune systems
  • Breast cancer
  • Classification
  • Swarm intelligence

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