Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model

Abstract Breast cancer (BC) is a global problem, largely due to a shortage of knowledge and early detection. The speed-up process of detection and classification is crucial for effective cancer treatment. Medical image analysis methods and computer-aided diagnosis can enhance this process, providing...

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Main Authors: Mourad Kaddes, Yasser M. Ayid, Ahmed M. Elshewey, Yasser Fouad
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-02-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88459-6
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author Mourad Kaddes
Yasser M. Ayid
Ahmed M. Elshewey
Yasser Fouad
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description Abstract Breast cancer (BC) is a global problem, largely due to a shortage of knowledge and early detection. The speed-up process of detection and classification is crucial for effective cancer treatment. Medical image analysis methods and computer-aided diagnosis can enhance this process, providing training and assistance to less experienced clinicians. Deep Learning (DL) models play a great role in accurately detecting and classifying cancer in the huge dataset, especially when dealing with large medical images. This paper presents a novel hybrid model of DL models combined a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for binary breast cancer classification on two datasets available at the Kaggle repository. CNNs extract mammographic features, including spatial hierarchies and malignancy patterns, whereas LSTM networks characterize sequential dependencies and temporal interactions. Our method combines these structures to improve classification accuracy and resilience. We compared the proposed model with other DL models, such as CNN, LSTM, Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), VGG-16, and RESNET-50. The CNN-LSTM model achieved superior performance with accuracies of 99.17% and 99.90% on the respective datasets. This paper uses prediction evaluation metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-score, and the AUC curve. The results showed that our model CNN-LSTM can enhance the performance of breast cancer classifiers compared with others with 99.90% accuracy on the second dataset.
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spelling doaj-art-bed3a7e0e6a8460c85a38b4f71c2b18f2025-02-09T12:34:57ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-02-0115111410.1038/s41598-025-88459-6Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM modelMourad Kaddes0Yasser M. Ayid1Ahmed M. Elshewey2Yasser Fouad3Department of Information Systems, College of Computing & Information Technology at Khulais, University of JeddahMathematics Department, Applied Collage Al-Kamil Branch, University of JeddahDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information, Suez UniversityDepartment of Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information, Suez UniversityAbstract Breast cancer (BC) is a global problem, largely due to a shortage of knowledge and early detection. The speed-up process of detection and classification is crucial for effective cancer treatment. Medical image analysis methods and computer-aided diagnosis can enhance this process, providing training and assistance to less experienced clinicians. Deep Learning (DL) models play a great role in accurately detecting and classifying cancer in the huge dataset, especially when dealing with large medical images. This paper presents a novel hybrid model of DL models combined a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for binary breast cancer classification on two datasets available at the Kaggle repository. CNNs extract mammographic features, including spatial hierarchies and malignancy patterns, whereas LSTM networks characterize sequential dependencies and temporal interactions. Our method combines these structures to improve classification accuracy and resilience. We compared the proposed model with other DL models, such as CNN, LSTM, Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), VGG-16, and RESNET-50. The CNN-LSTM model achieved superior performance with accuracies of 99.17% and 99.90% on the respective datasets. This paper uses prediction evaluation metrics such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-score, and the AUC curve. The results showed that our model CNN-LSTM can enhance the performance of breast cancer classifiers compared with others with 99.90% accuracy on the second dataset.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88459-6Breast CancerCNNLSTMCNN-LSTMDLHealthcare
spellingShingle Mourad Kaddes
Yasser M. Ayid
Ahmed M. Elshewey
Yasser Fouad
Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model
Scientific Reports
Breast Cancer
CNN
LSTM
CNN-LSTM
DL
Healthcare
title Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model
title_full Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model
title_fullStr Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model
title_full_unstemmed Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model
title_short Breast cancer classification based on hybrid CNN with LSTM model
title_sort breast cancer classification based on hybrid cnn with lstm model
topic Breast Cancer
CNN
LSTM
CNN-LSTM
DL
Healthcare
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-88459-6
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