# Load library
library(survival)
library(keras)
library(tensorflow)
library(dplyr)
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library(neuralnet)
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## compute
library(caret)
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## Loading required package: lattice
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# Load the dataset
data <- read.csv(file.choose())
# Rename Column name
data <- data%>%
rename(Age=X30,year_of_operation=X64,positive_axillary=X1,Survival_status=X1.1)
data$Survival_status <- as.factor(data$Survival_status)
# EDA
# Summary
summary(data)
## Age year_of_operation positive_axillary Survival_status
## Min. :30.00 Min. :58.00 Min. : 0.000 1:224
## 1st Qu.:44.00 1st Qu.:60.00 1st Qu.: 0.000 2: 81
## Median :52.00 Median :63.00 Median : 1.000
## Mean :52.53 Mean :62.85 Mean : 4.036
## 3rd Qu.:61.00 3rd Qu.:66.00 3rd Qu.: 4.000
## Max. :83.00 Max. :69.00 Max. :52.000
str(data)
## 'data.frame': 305 obs. of 4 variables:
## $ Age : int 30 30 31 31 33 33 34 34 34 34 ...
## $ year_of_operation: int 62 65 59 65 58 60 59 66 58 60 ...
## $ positive_axillary: int 3 0 2 4 10 0 0 9 30 1 ...
## $ Survival_status : Factor w/ 2 levels "1","2": 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 ...
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# Univariate
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hist(data$Age, main="Distribution of Age", xlab="Age", col="red", border="black")
# Histogram for year of operation
hist(data$year_of_operation, main="Distribution of year of operation", xlab="Year", col="Blue", border="black")
# Histogram for Number of positive_axillary Nodes
hist(data$positive_axillary, main="Distribution of Number of positive axillary Nodes", xlab="Number of positive axillary Nodes", col="lightblue", border="black")
# Bar plot for Survival Status
table(data$Survival_status)
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barplot(table(data$Survival_status), main="Survival Status", xlab="Survival Status", ylab="Frequency", col=c("lightgreen", "lightcoral"), names.arg=c("Survived", "Died"))
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# Bivariate
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# Boxplot of Age vs Survival Status
boxplot(Age ~ Survival_status, data=data, main="Age vs Survival Status", xlab="Survival Status", ylab="Age", col=c("green", "lightblue"), names=c("Survived", "Died"))
# Boxplot of Year of Procedure vs Survival Status
boxplot(year_of_operation ~ Survival_status, data=data, main="year of operation vs Survival Status", xlab="Survival Status", ylab="Year of operation", col=c("pink", "lightblue"), names=c("Survived", "Died"))
# Boxplot of Number of Lymph Nodes vs Survival Status
boxplot(positive_axillary ~ Survival_status, data=data, main="Number of positive axillary Nodes vs Survival Status", xlab="Survival Status", ylab="Number of positive axillary Nodes", col=c("pink", "yellow"), names=c("Survived", "Died"))
# Scaling Age,year_of_operation, positive_axillary
data_scaled <- data %>%
mutate(Age = scale(Age),
year_of_operation = scale(year_of_operation),
positive_axillary = scale(positive_axillary))
# Splitting the data into training and testing sets
set.seed(123)
index <- createDataPartition(data_scaled$Survival_status, p = 0.8, list = FALSE)
trainset <- data_scaled[index, ]
testset <- data_scaled[-index, ]
proc <- Survival_status ~ Age + year_of_operation + positive_axillary
nn_model <- neuralnet(proc,
data = trainset,
hidden = 5, # 6 neurons in the hidden layer
linear.output = FALSE, # Binary classification
stepmax = 1e5, # Maximum steps for convergence
threshold = 0.01, # Convergence threshold
act.fct = "logistic") # Sigmoid activation function in outputlayer
plot(nn_model)
# Ensure the correct test data subset is used for predictions
test_features <- testset[, c('Age', 'year_of_operation', 'positive_axillary')]
# Check for duplication
print(anyDuplicated(test_features))
## [1] 45
# Predict on the test data
nn_predictions <- compute(nn_model, test_features)
# Inspect the structure of the predictions
print(str(nn_predictions))
## List of 2
## $ neurons :List of 2
## ..$ : num [1:60, 1:4] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
## .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
## .. .. ..$ : chr [1:60] "3" "14" "17" "20" ...
## .. .. ..$ : chr [1:4] "" "Age" "year_of_operation" "positive_axillary"
## ..$ : num [1:60, 1:6] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
## .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
## .. .. ..$ : chr [1:60] "3" "14" "17" "20" ...
## .. .. ..$ : NULL
## $ net.result: num [1:60, 1:2] 1 0.548 0.885 0.85 0.998 ...
## ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
## .. ..$ : chr [1:60] "3" "14" "17" "20" ...
## .. ..$ : NULL
## NULL
# Extract and flatten predictions (assuming binary classification with 2 columns)
# Take the first column of the predictions, which corresponds to the probability for the positive class
predicted_probabilities <- nn_predictions$net.result[, 1]
# Convert predicted probabilities to binary classes based on a threshold of 0.5
predicted_class <- ifelse(predicted_probabilities > 0.5, 1, 2)
# Check lengths again
print(length(predicted_class)) # Should be 60
## [1] 60
print(length(testset$Survival_status)) # Should be 60
## [1] 60
# Convert to factors and align levels
predicted_class <- as.factor(predicted_class)
actual_class <- as.factor(testset$Survival_status)
# Ensure levels are consistent
predicted_class <- factor(predicted_class, levels = levels(actual_class))
# Evaluate model accuracy on test data
conf_matrix <- confusionMatrix(predicted_class, actual_class)
print(conf_matrix)
## Confusion Matrix and Statistics
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## Reference
## Prediction 1 2
## 1 35 12
## 2 9 4
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## Accuracy : 0.65
## 95% CI : (0.516, 0.7687)
## No Information Rate : 0.7333
## P-Value [Acc > NIR] : 0.9426
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## Kappa : 0.0483
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## Mcnemar's Test P-Value : 0.6625
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## Sensitivity : 0.7955
## Specificity : 0.2500
## Pos Pred Value : 0.7447
## Neg Pred Value : 0.3077
## Prevalence : 0.7333
## Detection Rate : 0.5833
## Detection Prevalence : 0.7833
## Balanced Accuracy : 0.5227
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## 'Positive' Class : 1
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conclusion :- This neural network model was able to predict the survival status of the patients using three features: age, year of operation, and number of positive axillary lymph nodes. It also had a balanced architecture with regard to five neurons in its hidden layer and binary cross-entropy, hence optimal generalization without leading the model towards overfitting. The performance evaluation of the model was done using a confusion matrix and had quite good accuracy, hence reliable to carry out the task of this binary classification.