Respiratory failure & ventilation

Application progress of machine learning in patient-ventilator asynchrony during mechanical ventilation: a systematic review

Crit CarePublished Systematic review

Authors' conclusion

ML models show significant potential for identifying and predicting PVA, as evidenced by their high reported performance metrics.

Study context

Population
Adults receiving mechanical ventilation; original studies applying machine learning (ML) to assess patient-ventilator asynchrony (PVA)studies included of 74 articles
Participants
14 adults
Outcome
ML performance for PVA identification
Methodological detailsPROSPERO-registered protocol, refined quality assessment method, Searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Cochrane from inception to November 2024
  • PROSPERO-registered protocol
  • Refined quality assessment method
  • Searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and Cochrane from inception to November 2024

Pooled result

As reported in the abstract

F1 score range
0.731 to 0.988
Distinct ML methods
11
Targeted PVA types
19
Studies on PVA identification
13
Studies predicting PVA occurrence
1
Studies with external validation
2
Studies addressing class imbalance
5
Studies describing hyperparameter tuning
4

Original publication

Application progress of machine learning in patient-ventilator asynchrony during mechanical ventilation: a systematic review. Crit Care. Published 10 July 2025. doi:10.1186/s13054-025-05523-3

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