Breast Cancer Detection Based on Histopathological Images Using Vision Transformers

Abstract

Breast cancer is a prevalent and potentially fatal malignancy in women, requiring continual improvements in diagnostic techniques. In order to help medical personnel accurately detect dangerous tumors, automated medical image analysis is essential. This paper presents a unique breast cancer detection model that makes use of deep learning and transfer learning approaches in order to improve the accuracy of diagnostics. The pre-trained ViTb-32 model is fine-tuned on a pre-processed dataset to produce cutting-edge results. The model was trained with a public histopathologic breast cancer dataset. The dataset is pre-processed to resize the images and normalize them to enhance the performance during the training and achieve convergence faster. The ViTb-32 model is optimized by fine-tuning the hyperparameters to achieve the best possible accuracy. The proposed model achieves an accuracy rate of 96.92%. The application of this paradigm in the clinical setting has the potential to improve patient outcomes by facilitating early detection and timely intervention, which could reduce the mortality rate of breast cancer patients by detecting the disease at an early stage.