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Molecular communication devices have a large potential in future medical applications as they offer an alternative to antenna-based transmission systems that may not be applicable due to size, temperature, or radiation constraints. The communication is achieved by transforming a digital signal into concentrations of molecules that represent the signal. These molecules are then detected at the other end of the communication channel and transformed back into a digital signal. Accurately modeling the transmission channel is often not possible which may be due to a lack of data or time-varying parameters of the channel (e.g., the movements of a person wearing a medical device). This makes the process of demodulating the signal (i.e., signal classification) very difficult. Many approaches for demodulation have been discussed in the literature with one particular approach having tremendous success \u2013 artificial neural networks. These artificial networks imitate the decision process in the human brain and are capable of reliably classifying even rather noisy input data. Training such a network relies on a large set of training data. As molecular communication as a technology is still in its early development phase, this data is not always readily available. In this paper, we discuss neural network-based demodulation approaches relying on synthetic simulation data based on theoretical channel models as well as works that base their network on actual measurements produced by a prototype test bed. 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