Heuristically optimized weighted feature fusion with adaptive cascaded deep network: a novel breast cancer detection framework using mammogram images

This paper has aimed to develop the Breast Cancer Detection (BCD) technique along with the mammography reports of the patients. For this proposed framework, the required images are collected from publicly available datasets. Further, the collected images are given into the phase of feature extraction, where the deep features based on texture features, ResNet, morphological features and density features are extracted and fused together. In addition, the weighted fused feature selection is performed with the fused features, in which the weight is optimised with the Modified Hybrid based Leader Optimization (MHLBO) obtained from Hybrid Leader-Based Optimization(HLBO) to elevate the feature performance on classification. Then, breast cancer can be classified with the developed Adaptive Cascaded Deep Network (ACDN) by combing the classification results of, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Gate Recurrent Unit (GRU), and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). Here, the parameter tuning has occurred in all three classifiers using the same enhanced HLBO. Throughout the experimentation, the designed model shows 97% and 96% regarding accuracy and F1-score, respectively. The tentative outcomes show the efficacy of the designed BCD method is compared with other baseline approaches.