Breast cancer classification with Keras and Deep Learning - PyImageSearch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to train a Keras deep learning model to predict breast cancer in breast histology images. Back 2012-2013 I was working for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a suite of image processing and machine learning algorithms to automatically analyze breast histology images for cancer risk factors, a task that took trained pathologists hours to complete. Back then deep learning was not as popular and "mainstream" as it is now. For example, the ImageNet image classification challenge had only launched in 2009 and it wasn't until 2012 that Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton won the competition with the now infamous AlexNet architecture. To analyze the cellular structures in the breast histology images we were instead leveraging basic computer vision and image processing algorithms, but combining them in a novel way. These algorithms worked really well -- but also required quite a bit of work to put together.