An anatomization on breast cancer detection and diagnosis employing multi-layer perceptron neural network (MLP) and Convolutional neural network (CNN)

Abstract

This paper aims to review Artificial neural networks, Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural network (MLP) and Convolutional Neural network (CNN) employed to detect breast malignancies for early diagnosis of breast cancer based on their accuracy in order to identify which method is better for the diagnosis of breast cell malignancies. Deep comparison of functioning of each network and its designing is performed and then analysis is done based on the accuracy of diagnosis and classification of breast malignancy by the network to decide which network outperforms the other. CNN is found to give slightly higher accuracy than MLP for diagnosis and detection of breast cancer. There still is the need to carefully analyse and perform a thorough research that uses both these methods on the same data set under same conditions in order identify the architecture that gives better accuracy.