Research activity by Gaetano Perchiazzi

From a photo shot in the hutch of Laboratory ID17 located in the Sinchrotron of Grenoble

The group I lead works in the field of the mechanics of respiratory system. This is an important issue for intensivists, since a vast majority of patients admitted to intensive care units are mechanically ventilated.

My research topics include:

• Study of Respiratory Mechanics by using simulators (developed in MatLab/Simulink environment)
• Use of Artificial Intelligence methods like Artificial Neural Networks to assess respiratory mechanics
• Image processing of Computed Tomography of lungs, to extract Physiological variables from Morphology
• Sinchrotron Radiation Computed Tomography to assess lung micro-mechanics