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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 01, 2018
Eizo Corporation, Hakusan, JP;
Takuya Katayama, Kobe, JP;
EIZO Corporation, Hakusan, JP;
Abstract
A gauze detection system is provided that is capable of effectively detecting a gauze pad in the patient's body during surgery without applying special processing to the gauze pad. A gauze detection system, includes: an image input sectionto input a taken image of an operative field; a determination sectionto determine whether a determination target region contains a feature of a gauze image by image processing, the region having a predetermined size in an input image; and a determination result output sectionto report detection of a gauze pad in the input image in a case of the determination target region being determined by the determination sectionto contain the feature of the gauze image.