International Journal of Engineering Continuity
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024): ijec

SMOTE Variants and Random Forest Method: A Comprehensive Approach to Breast Cancer Classification

Baiq Candra Herawati (Universitas Bumigora)
Hairani Hairani (Universitas Bumigora)
Juvinal Ximenes Guterres (Universidade Oriental Timur Lorosa’e)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Feb 2024

Abstract

This research focused on using machine learning methods for breast cancer diagnosis, considering that breast cancer is the scariest disease for women because it can cause mortality. Not only that, but there is also an increase in breast cancer death rates in women yearly.  Early prediction is the right solution to increase life expectancy and reduce mortality rates caused by breast cancer. However, breast cancer data has a problem, namely that the data is imbalanced, which harms the performance of the machine learning method itself. In the data, breast cancer had a Benign class (357 instances) more than the Malignant class (212 instances). Therefore, this study aimed to solve the problem of imbalanced data using the Smote variants and Random Forest approaches in breast cancer classification. The results of this study showed that the Smote approach with Random Forest had the best performance compared to Borderline Smote and Random Forest in the case of breast cancer data classification, where Smote with Random Forest produced an accuracy of 97.3%, sensitivity of 96.9%, and specificity of 97.8%. In comparison, Borderline Smote with Random Forest produced an accuracy of 96.4%, sensitivity of 95.6%, and specificity of 96.9%. The results of this study can contribute to predicting breast cancer using the proposed method, because it has been proven to have high accuracy.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijec

Publisher

Subject

Civil Engineering, Building, Construction & Architecture Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering Engineering Materials Science & Nanotechnology Mechanical Engineering

Description

The International Journal of Engineering Continuity is peer-reviewed, open access, and published twice a year online with coverage covering engineering and technology. It aims to promote novelty and contribution followed by the theory and practice of technology and engineering. The expansion of ...