Facultad de Física e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Veracruzana, Sebastián Camacho 5, Col. Centro, C. P. 91000 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. ncruz@uv.mx
Abstract:
We evaluate the effectiveness of seven Bayesian network classifiers as potential tools for the diagnosis of breast cancer using two real-world databases containing fine-needle aspiration of the breast lesion cases collected by a single observer and multiple observers, respectively. The results show a certain ingredient of subjectivity implicitly contained in these data: we get an average accuracy of 93.04% for the former and 83.31% for the latter. These findings suggest that observers see different things when looking at the samples in the microscope; a situation that significantly diminishes the performance of these classifiers in diagnosing such a disease.