Patients of the Mechanical Ventilation using Neural Network

The process of weaning from mechanical ventilation is one of the challenges in intensive care units. In this paper 66 patients under extubation process (T-tube test) were studied: 33 patients with successful trials and 33 patients who failed to maintain spontaneous breathing and were reconnected. Each patient was characterized using 7 time series from respiratory signals, and for each serie was extracted 4 statistics data. Two types of Neural Networks were applied for discriminate between patients from the two groups: radial basis function and multilayer perceptron, getting better results with the second type of network