Breast cancer is the most leading cancer occurring in women and is a significant factor in female mortality. Early diagnosis of breast cancer with Artificial Intelligent (AI) developments for breast cancer detection can lead to a proper treatment to affected patients as early as possible that eventually help reduce the women mortality rate. Reliability issues limit the current clinical detection techniques, such as Ultra-Sound, Mammography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) from screening images for precise elucidation. The capability to detect a tumor in early diagnosis, expensive, relatively long waiting time due to pandemic and painful procedure for a patient to perform. This article aims to review breast cancer screening methods and recent technological advancements systematically. In addition, this paper intends to explore the progression and challenges of AI in breast cancer detection. The next state of the art between image and signal processing will be presented, and their performance is compared. This review will facilitate the researcher to insight the view of breast cancer detection technologies advancement and its challenges.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide. The death rate is high because of the lack of early signs. Due to the absence of a cure, immediate treatment is necessary to remove the cancerous cells and prolong life. For early breast cancer detection, it is crucial to propose a robust intelligent classifier with statistical feature analysis that considers parameter existence, size, and location. This paper proposes a novel Multi-Stage Feature Selection with Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (MSFS–BPSO) using Ultra-Wideband (UWB). A collection of 39,000 data samples from non-tumor and with tumor sizes ranging from 2 to 7 mm was created using realistic tissue-like dielectric materials. Subsequently, the tumor models were inserted into the heterogeneous breast phantom. The breast phantom with tumors was imaged and represented in both time and frequency domains using the UWB signal. Consequently, the dataset was fed into the MSFS–BPSO framework and started with feature normalization before it was reduced using feature dimension reduction. Then, the feature selection (based on time/frequency domain) using seven different classifiers selected the frequency domain compared to the time domain and continued to perform feature extraction. Feature selection using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is able to distinguish between class-correlated data. Finally, the optimum feature subset was selected using a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) classifier with the Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (BPSO) method. The research findings found that the MSFS–BPSO method has increased classification accuracy up to 96.3% and given good dependability even when employing an enormous data sample.

Breast cancer is the most often identified cancer among women and the main reason for cancer-related deaths worldwide. The most effective methods for controlling and treating this disease through breast screening and emerging detection techniques. This paper proposes an intelligent classifier for the early detection of breast cancer using a larger dataset since there is limited researcher focus on that for better analytic models. To ensure that the issue is tackled, this project proposes an intelligent classifier using the Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) with a statistical feature model that uses a more significant size of data set to analyze the prediction of the presence of breast cancer using Ultra Wideband (UWB). The proposed method is able to detect breast cancer existence with an average accuracy of 98.67%. The proposed module might become a potential user-friendly technology for early breast cancer detection in domestic use.

Microwave technology is very promising tool for breast cancer detection. Microwave transmits and receives UWB signals. UWB signals carries information of the breast cancer. UWB signals need to be pre-processed in order to remove irrelevant and redundant features. Feature extraction and feature selection methods are mostly used to remove the unwanted features. In this paper, a statistically modelled feature selection (SMFS) method is proposed for microwave breast cancer detection. Initially, performance of different feature extraction and feature selection method are analysed using Anova test (p-value) and machine learning (SVM, DT, PNN, NB) accuracy. The best feature extraction and feature selection methods are combined and tested. Based on the performance of feature extraction and feature selection method, Combined Neighbour Component Analysis (feature selection) and Statistical features (feature extraction) are combined and tested. This method is able to achieve up to 85%. The result proves two stage methods are able to improve the accuracy compared to single stage method. Therefore, SMFS is able to detect breast cancer efficiently.