“…In the field of medicine, ANN techniques have been used for various purposes: Montaño 1 used them in his doctoral thesis for survival analysis and addictive behaviors; Trujillano et al 3,6,7 reported on their use primarily to predict quantitative measurements of patients in medical practice (mortality, survival, diagnosis, image processing, electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, optimal drug dosages, intensive care medicine, and hospital mortality); Hernández and Lorente, 8 and Ortiz et al 9 used ANN techniques for predictive studies of factors associated with breast cancer; Palmer et al, 10 used ANN techniques to predict ecstasy consumption; and Menacho 38 to predict academic performance. Additionally, Basogain 39 mentions various applications of ANN in medicine (image processing, medical diagnosis, robotics, and classification of data from sensors).…”