Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic)
Multivariate Classification Available

Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic)

Donated Oct 31, 1995 Health and Medicine Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Abstract

Diagnostic Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database

Instances
569
Features
30
Data Type
Multivariate
Missing Values
No

Purpose

Additional Information Features are computed from a digitized image of a fine needle aspirate (FNA) of a breast mass. They describe characteristics of the cell nuclei present in the image. A few of the images can be found at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~street/images/ Separating plane described above was obtained using Multisurface Method-Tree (MSM-T) [K. P. Bennett, "Decision Tree Construction Via Linear Programming." Proceedings of the 4th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Society, pp. 97-101, 1992], a classification method which uses linear programming to construct a decision tree. Relevant features were selected using an exhaustive search in the space of 1-4 features and 1-3 separating planes. The actual linear program used to obtain the separating plane in the 3-dimensional space is that described in: [K. P. Bennett and O. L. Mangasarian: "Robust Linear Programming Discrimination of Two Linearly Inseparable Sets", Optimization Methods and Software 1, 1992, 23-34]. This database is also available through the UW CS ftp server: ftp ftp.cs.wisc.edu cd math-prog/cpo-dataset/machine-learn/WDBC/

Name Role Type Description Missing
Fractal Dimension3 Feature Continuous - No
ID Id Categorical - No
Diagnosis Target Categorical - No
Radius1 Feature Continuous - No
Texture1 Feature Continuous - No
Perimeter1 Feature Continuous - No
Area1 Feature Continuous - No
Smoothness1 Feature Continuous - No
Compactness1 Feature Continuous - No
Concavity1 Feature Continuous - No
Concave Points1 Feature Continuous - No
Symmetry1 Feature Continuous - No
Fractal Dimension1 Feature Continuous - No
Radius2 Feature Continuous - No
Texture2 Feature Continuous - No
Perimeter2 Feature Continuous - No
Area2 Feature Continuous - No
Smoothness2 Feature Continuous - No
Compactness2 Feature Continuous - No
Concavity2 Feature Continuous - No
Concave Points2 Feature Continuous - No
Symmetry2 Feature Continuous - No
Fractal Dimension2 Feature Continuous - No
Radius3 Feature Continuous - No
Texture3 Feature Continuous - No
Perimeter3 Feature Continuous - No
Area3 Feature Continuous - No
Smoothness3 Feature Continuous - No
Compactness3 Feature Continuous - No
Concavity3 Feature Continuous - No
Concave Points3 Feature Continuous - No
Symmetry3 Feature Continuous - No

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