Transforming Breast Cancer Care: How 'Guard Her Health' Uses ML-Technology and Healthcare to Empower
In the current scenario of breast cancer diagnosis, the persistent issue of false positives represents a significant hurdle. These inaccuracies in detection often propel patients towards unnecessary surgical procedures, generating emotional distress and placing an undue burden on healthcare resources. The essence of "Guard Her Health" lies in its commitment to revolutionizing breast cancer prediction through a sophisticated blend of technology and healthcare. At its core, this paper is focused on the creation of specialized predictive models using learning models, including Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), alongside frontend and backend integration via HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flask, accurately developed from the ground up. These models are crafted to analyze a diverse spectrum of medical data, meticulously considering multifaceted factors associated with breast cancer occurrences. Through this intricate analysis, the models yield precise estimations, offering invaluable insights into the likelihood of breast cancer. Rectifying this challenge demands a novel approach—a more refined and dependable predictive tool that possesses the exceptional capability to distinguish between benign and malignant cases with unparalleled accuracy. By deploying such a tool, the goal is to drastically diminish the frequency of unnecessary medical interventions, consequently alleviating patient anxiety, minimizing unwarranted surgeries, and alleviating the strain on healthcare resources. This imperative for accuracy in diagnostics underscores the urgent need for an advanced solution capable of significantly reducing false positives and ensuring that medical interventions are judiciously directed, enhancing both patient outcomes and healthcare efficiency.
Authors
- Asmita Yadav (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0485-5607)
- Ankit Tyagi
- Ayush Agarwal
- Om Pandey
Institutions
- Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (IN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-08-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3675888.3676134
- Primary Topic
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00