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Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Diagnostic)

UCI ML Repository / Wolberg, Street & Mangasarian · Oncology & Medical Diagnostics · 569 biopsy samples, 30 continuous nuclear morphometric features

Oncology & Medical DiagnosticsCC-BY-4.0569 biopsy samples, 30 continuous nuclear morphometric featuresopen

Dataset Profile & Characteristics

Label Type:Binary (Malignant vs Benign)
Languages:en
License Tier:permissive-open-source
Modalities:tabular

Intended Use

  • Medical diagnostics binary classification benchmarking
  • Feature selection and regularized logistic regression validation

Prohibited / Discouraged Use

  • Autonomous clinical breast cancer diagnosis without certified pathology oversight

Bias, Leakage & Privacy Risk Analysis

Privacy / Sensitive Data Risks:

Anonymized fine needle aspirate (FNA) cell nuclei measurements; zero patient PII.

Known Bias:

Collected from single clinical center (Univ. of Wisconsin Hospitals) in 1995.

Known Benchmark Leakage:

Radius, perimeter, and area are algebraically coupled.

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