Machine learning techniques for personalized breast cancer risk prediction: comparison with the BCRAT and BOADICEA models.

Background: Comprehensive breast cancer risk prediction models enable identifying and targeting women at high-risk, while reducing interventions in those at low-risk. Breast cancer risk prediction models used in clinical practice have low discriminatory accuracy (0.53-0.64). Machine learning (ML) of...

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Published in:Breast Cancer Research Vol. 21; no. 1
Main Authors: Ming, Chang, Viassolo, Valeria, Probst-Hensch, Nicole, Chappuis, Pierre O., Dinov, Ivo D., Katapodi, Maria C.
Format: research Journal Article
Published: BioMed Central 6/20/2019
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          Ming, Chang
          Viassolo, Valeria
          Probst-Hensch, Nicole
          Chappuis, Pierre O.
          Dinov, Ivo D.
          Katapodi, Maria C.
        affil: Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, Room 118, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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          Models, Theoretical
          Disease Susceptibility
          Breast Neoplasms Etiology
          Algorithms
          Population Surveillance
          Adult
          Female
          Prognosis
          Middle Age
          ROC Curve
          Risk Assessment
          Human
          Validation Studies
          Comparative Studies
          Evaluation Research
          Multicenter Studies
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          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
      ab: Background: Comprehensive breast cancer risk prediction models enable identifying and targeting women at high-risk, while reducing interventions in those at low-risk. Breast cancer risk prediction models used in clinical practice have low discriminatory accuracy (0.53-0.64). Machine learning (ML) offers an alternative approach to standard prediction modeling that may address current limitations and improve accuracy of those tools. The purpose of this study was to compare the discriminatory accuracy of ML-based estimates against a pair of established methods-the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (BCRAT) and Breast and Ovarian Analysis of Disease Incidence and Carrier Estimation Algorithm (BOADICEA) models.Methods: We quantified and compared the performance of eight different ML methods to the performance of BCRAT and BOADICEA using eight simulated datasets and two retrospective samples: a random population-based sample of U.S. breast cancer patients and their cancer-free female relatives (N = 1143), and a clinical sample of Swiss breast cancer patients and cancer-free women seeking genetic evaluation and/or testing (N = 2481).Results: Predictive accuracy (AU-ROC curve) reached 88.28% using ML-Adaptive Boosting and 88.89% using ML-random forest versus 62.40% with BCRAT for the U.S. population-based sample. Predictive accuracy reached 90.17% using ML-adaptive boosting and 89.32% using ML-Markov chain Monte Carlo generalized linear mixed model versus 59.31% with BOADICEA for the Swiss clinic-based sample.Conclusions: There was a striking improvement in the accuracy of classification of women with and without breast cancer achieved with ML algorithms compared to the state-of-the-art model-based approaches. High-accuracy prediction techniques are important in personalized medicine because they facilitate stratification of prevention strategies and individualized clinical management.
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