Abstract
Medical malpractice is a social problem. What is hoped for in technical development is decreasing the burden on the nurses, while at the same time, improving the quality of surgery. Therefore, this study aims to develop a gauze counting system that could be used in operating rooms for the purpose of preventing foreign body remnants and supporting the nurses. The results of automatically counting ten gauzes, the prototype of this system that had been developed, demonstrated 99% accuracy between number of gauzes and output from the system in detecting dried gauzes which had blood adhering to it. It suggested that the precise counting of gauzes could be realized by using this system.
