Comparison between CNN and Haar classifiers for surgical instrumentation classification

Abstract

The following paper presents the development, operation and comparison of two methods of object recognition trained for the classification of surgical instrumentation, where a video sequence is used to capture scene information constantly, in order to allow the selection of some of the instruments according to the needs of the doctor. The methods used were Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Haar classifiers, where the first was added a previous element detection stage, and the second one was conditioned to allow it not only to detect elements, but also to classify them. With the CNN an accuracy of 96.4% in the classification of the two categories of the first branch of the tree was reached, while for Haar classifiers 90% accuracy was achieved in the detection of one of the five instruments, whose classifier was the one that presented the best results.