Binary Classification of Malignant Mesothelioma: A Comparative Study

Malignant mesotheliomas are aggressive cancers that occur in the thin layer of tissue covers most commonly linings chest or abdomen. Though cancer itself is rare and deadly, early diagnosis will help with treatment improve outcomes. Mesothelioma usually diagnosed later stages. Symptoms similar to other, more common conditions. As such, predicting diagnosing mesothelioma essential starting for a often too late. The goal this comprehensive empirical comparison determine best-performing model based on recall (sensitivity). We particularly wish avoid false negatives, as it costly diagnose patient healthy when they actually have cancer. Model training be conducted k-fold cross validation. Random forest chosen optimal model. According model, age duration asbestos exposure ranked important features affecting mesothelioma.