Breast cancer detection using residual DenseNets in deep learning

Abstract

Breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women globally, requires a prompt and precise diagnosis in order to increase survival rates via therapy. There is a possibility of bias and inconsistency in the results of traditional diagnostic procedures like mammography, ultrasound, and histological testing since they rely on the expertise of radiologists and pathologists. There are exciting new opportunities for breast cancer diagnostics to be enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning. The purpose of this research is to examine the feasibility of using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and residual dense networks (ResDenseNets) used for breast cancer automated detection in medical images. Because of their superior capacity to learn hierarchical features from raw image data, CNNs are ideal for medical image interpretation. By including residual connections, which allow for the training of considerably deeper models, ResDenseNets—an extension of CNNs—mitigate the problem of vanishing gradient in deep networks. ResDenseNet and CNNs considerably enhance the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis in comparison to conventional approaches, according to the findings. Notably, ResDenseNets outperform other types of networks because they are able to learn intricate and nuanced properties directly from the data.