LapTool-Net: A Contextual Detector of Surgical Tools in Laparoscopic Videos Based on Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks

Babak Namazi, Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Venkat Devarajan

We propose a new multilabel classifier, called LapTool-Net to detect the presence of surgical tools in each frame of a laparoscopic video. The novelty of LapTool-Net is the exploit…