Abstract: A computing device is provided for providing triggering times to a medical scanning apparatus adapted to perform triggered imaging data acquisition. Said computing device includes an input data interface configured to obtain real-time data of respiratory cycles of a patient; a computation module configured to implement an artificial intelligence entity, which is trained and adapted to generate a prediction of a number of respiratory cycles of the patient based on the obtained real-time data; a triggering module configured to determine triggering times corresponding to the predicted respiratory cycles; and an output data interface configured to output the determined triggering times to the medical scanning apparatus.