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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 680212, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2009/680212 Research Article Classification of Cancer Recurrence with Alpha-Beta BAM ´ Marıa Elena Acevedo, Marco Antonio Acevedo, and Federico Felipe Department of Communications and Electronic Engineering, Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Av. IPN s/n, Col. Lindavista, 07738 Mexico City, Mexico Correspondence should be addressed to Marıa Elena Acevedo, eacevedo@ipn.mx ´ Received 3 June 2009; Accepted 30 July 2009 Recommended by Carlo Cattani Bidirectional Associative Memories BAMs based on first model proposed by Kosko do not have perfect recall of training set, and their algorithm must iterate until it reaches a stable state. In this work, we use the model of Alpha-Beta BAM to classify automatically cancer recurrence in female patients with a previous breast cancer surgery. Alpha-Beta BAM presents perfect recall of all the training patterns and it has a one-shot algorithm; these advantages make to Alpha-Beta BAM a suitable tool for classification. We use data from Haberman database, and leave-one-out algorithm was applied to analyze the performance of our model as classifier. We obtain a percentage of classification of 99.98%. Copyright q 2009 Marıa Elena Acevedo et al. This is an open access article distributed under ´ the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Breast cancer is a preponderant disease in the world and it is death cause of women. The women who