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Summary

  • The initial submission of this article was received on February 4th, 2024 and was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The Academic Editor made their initial decision on March 11th, 2024.
  • The first revision was submitted on April 4th, 2024 and was reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • A further revision was submitted on April 29th, 2024 and was reviewed by the Academic Editor.
  • The article was Accepted by the Academic Editor on May 3rd, 2024.

Version 0.3 (accepted)

· · Academic Editor

Accept

Author has addressed reviewer comments properly. Thus I recommend publication of the manuscript.

[# PeerJ Staff Note - this decision was reviewed and approved by Xiangjie Kong, a PeerJ Section Editor covering this Section #]

Version 0.2

· · Academic Editor

Minor Revisions

Please read the author guidelines and double check the references and revise the manuscript as per the reviewer suggestions and resubmit it.

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Basic reporting

No Comment

Experimental design

No Comments

Validity of the findings

no comments

Additional comments

no comments

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

Good

Experimental design

Good

Validity of the findings

Good

Additional comments

The authors have addressed most of the comments. However, the references are not complete. Information is missing in multiple references that must be corrected.

Version 0.1 (original submission)

· · Academic Editor

Major Revisions

I am happy to announce that review of your manuscript is now complete. Kindly revise the manuscript as per the reviewer suggestions and resubmit it.

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Basic reporting

No comments

Experimental design

Work is good. But the justification of ensemble models is necessary.

Validity of the findings

Please explain for which cause, the results are good. Please add which parameter is responsible for it.

Additional comments

Good work. Please have a look on grammar. Recent papers may be included in references. On ensemble some of the work of A. Das et. al. with medical images. Please have a look on these if may need to refer for comparison.

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

In this work, the authors have proposed an ensemble learning framework for early detection of breast cancer from the given image and validated the proposed framework on different publically available datasets. However, the pseudocode of the proposed framework is not well written.

Experimental design

The authors have evaluated the performance of four different deep-learning pre-trained models to build their ensemble model. However,
1. The authors have not mentioned how these models have been selected and why their study has not considered other deep-learning models.
2. It is also not mentioned clearly, how the models' predictions combined to create the resultant ensemble.

Validity of the findings

No Comment

Additional comments

The introduction section is not well written. It should be rewritten by clearly addressing the following questions:
What?
Why (Motivation or importance of study)? and
How (Major contribution)?
The author may cite the article "Jakhar, Amit Kumar, Aman Gupta, and Mrityunjay Singh. "SELF: a stacked-based ensemble learning framework for breast cancer classification." Evolutionary Intelligence (2023): 1-16." in their study.

**PeerJ Staff Note:** It is PeerJ policy that additional references suggested during the peer-review process should only be included if the authors agree that they are relevant and useful.

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