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A risk factor is anything influences the possibility of obtaining sickness such as cancer. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women aged 20 to 59 years (Siegel, 2015). In Egypt female Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer as estimated from the National Population-Based Registry Program of Egypt (from 2008 till 2011) where the ratio was 32.04% (Ibrahim, 2014). It is tricky where in early stages the tumor is still tiny so no symptoms appear but in the same time the early detection cases are well treatable.
Organized national mammographic screening has been adopted as the gold standard for breast cancer early detection in western countries; however, it may not be the most cost-effective approach to early detection in low and middle income countries (LMC) as it is very demanding in terms of human and financial resources (Corbex, 2012). The analysis of mammograms is affected by the experience of the crew and need a lot of crew time and exertion that cause slowing of diagnosing period.
Health care resources are limited in a lot of nations. The expenses connected with mammographic screening approach are as high as purchasing new devices, radiologists and radiographers training, running costs, etc. for example the cost of the WHOP fully equipped mobile unit is about 6.75 million Egyptian Pounds (EGP) and its annual running costs is about 1.6 million EGP (Rylands-Monk, 2012). The unwanted impacts of mammography include the secondary effect of the test itself as radiation and delay of diagnosis. Disadvantages from false positive examination include the extra testing, invasive diagnostic steps and anxiety (Corbex, 2012). From a systematic survey of the related researches, around half of the ladies suffer from pain at mammography examinations where the breasts are compressed between two plates although that the duration of the test takes a moment (Gotzche, 2012).
Despite being less costly, free of radiation, widely available and better tolerated by patients than most imaging modalities, Ultrasound Scan is operator dependent and demands time and skill (Drukteinis, 2013). MRI is expensive, taking more time and not available in every hospital in Egypt. And the objective of this work is screening of applicant women for the further expensive examinations.
The most accurate way for breast cancer diagnosis is biopsy. However, biopsy may cause patient pain, bleeding and contamination in addition to unnecessary expenses spent for examinations. Thus, reducing unnecessary biopsy is an important goal and it is necessary to acquire successful identification mode to recognize breast cancer.
Breast cancer prevention is still a remote objective; accordingly, auxiliary prevention through early detection is the main possible methodology now. The goals of this study are creating an economic method for the early detection of breast cancer with no pain to patient, giving a fast diagnosing result in addition to training of non-expert doctors and trying to reduce mammography harms and false diagnosis of inexperienced doctors. High quality mammography images have high resolution and big size, consequently handling these images need high computational capacities. Thus, this study focuses on risk factors instead of mammography images. The objective is to build a computer system that supplies beneficial analysis tools that can assist radiologists in diagnosing for better performance.
Yoo and colleagues (Yoo,2012) collected some recent studies of classification applications; it was observed that the decision tree algorithm is the most public classification algorithm as a result of its ability to visually illustrate how classification decisions can be made.