BreaST-Net: Multi-Class Classification of Breast Cancer from Histopathological Images Using Ensemble of Swin Transformers

Sudhakar Tummala (), Jungeun Kim () and Seifedine Kadry
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Sudhakar Tummala: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University—AP, Amaravati 522503, Andhra Pradesh, India
Jungeun Kim: Department of Software, Kongju National University, Cheonan 31080, Korea
Seifedine Kadry: Department of Applied Data Science, Noroff University College, 4612 Kristiansand, Norway

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 21, 1-15

Abstract: Breast cancer (BC) is one of the deadly forms of cancer, causing mortality worldwide in the female population. The standard imaging procedures for screening BC involve mammography and ultrasonography. However, these imaging procedures cannot differentiate subtypes of benign and malignant cancers. Here, histopathology images could provide better sensitivity toward benign and malignant cancer subtypes. Recently, vision transformers have been gaining attention in medical imaging due to their success in various computer vision tasks. Swin transformer (SwinT) is a variant of vision transformer that works on the concept of non-overlapping shifted windows and is a proven method for various vision detection tasks. Thus, in this study, we investigated the ability of an ensemble of SwinTs in the two-class classification of benign vs. malignant and eight-class classification of four benign and four malignant subtypes, using an openly available BreaKHis dataset containing 7909 histopathology images acquired at different zoom factors of 40×, 100×, 200×, and 400×. The ensemble of SwinTs (including tiny, small, base, and large) demonstrated an average test accuracy of 96.0% for the eight-class and 99.6% for the two-class classification, outperforming all the previous works. Thus, an ensemble of SwinTs could identify BC subtypes using histopathological images and may lead to pathologist relief.

Keywords: breast cancer; swin transformer; diagnosis; benign; malignant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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