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Is This Mammogram Mass Malignant?

From the radiologist's BI-RADS assessment, the patient's age and the mass's shape, margin and density, is it malignant? A better estimate could spare some women an unnecessary biopsy.

Use caseHealthcarePredictionModel evaluation

The table

961 masses found on mammograms with the BI-RADS score, age, shape, margin and density, and the biopsy result. It's in Welt's research catalogue as Mammographic Mass, 961 rows by 6 columns, licensed CC BY 4.0. The catalogue measures its signal at 0.59. At 961 rows and 5 features, TabICLv2, Kumo Tabular Medium and Mitra-v2 take the table as it is. The others can't take a table this size, so the walkthrough leaves them out.

Walkthrough

  1. Load it from the catalogue

    Find the table, read its recorded target and print the column names.

    import pandas as pd
    from welt import Client
    
    with Client() as client:
        item = client.research_datasets(q="mammographic mass", limit=1)["items"][0]
        info = client.research_dataset(item["id"])
        data = client.load_research_dataset(item["id"])
    
    target = info["targets"][0]
    target = target["name"] if isinstance(target, dict) else target
    print([column["name"] for column in info["schema"]], target)
  2. Pick the rows

    Set aside 20 rows to predict at the end, and keep the rest for the models to learn from.

    known = data.dropna(subset=[target])
    new_rows = known.sample(20, random_state=1)
    table = known.drop(new_rows.index)
  3. Compare the models and predict

    The models compete on the same folds against a simple guess, then the top-ranked one is fitted on the whole table. ROC AUC runs from 0.5, a coin toss, to 1, a perfect ranking, and a lower Brier score means the probabilities can be trusted more. The last table puts each prediction next to the real answer.

    with Client() as client:
        evaluation = client.evaluate(table, target, task="classification", seed=7,
                                     models=["tabicl-v2", "kumo-medium", "mitra-v2"])
        model = evaluation.fit()
    
    print(evaluation.summary()[["name", "rank", "roc_auc_mean", "brier_mean"]])
    features = new_rows.drop(columns=target)
    print(pd.DataFrame({"actual": new_rows[target].values, "predicted": model.predict(features),
                        "probability": model.predict_proba(features).max(axis=1)}))

What you get

A malignancy probabilityFor each mass before biopsy.
Fewer unnecessary biopsiesSee how many benign masses fall below a safe threshold.
Calibrated scoresThe Brier score shows how far to trust each probability.

Try it

Use Open with to run the research datasets notebook in Colab, Kaggle or Jupyter and search for "mammographic mass", or run the code above after pip install "welt-client[parquet]".