Bench prototype, pre-deployment

A Second Set of Eyes for Surgical Instrument Trays

Sterile processing rebuilds every surgical tray by hand, on understaffed shifts. Our software reads each instrument and checks the tray against its count sheet before it reaches the OR. A tech still signs the count. We're pre-deployment and looking for our first sterile processing design partner.

Reads the etched catalog number

Checks the tray against its count sheet

Flags uncertain reads for a human

Bench prototype in Las Vegas. Not in clinical use.

Eight surgical instruments laid out on a printed calibration target under the bench camera

Image the tray

Read each instrument

Check the count sheet

Why this needs hardware

Polished stainless steel is a mirror, etched catalog numbers are tiny, and look-alike instruments differ by a curve or a ratchet. A phone pointed at a tray is not enough.

6 of 6 to 0 of 6

Etched catalog numbers read on our bench, before and after glare covered part of the marking.

57.8%

How often an off-the-shelf vision model told straight from curved Mayo scissors on public instrument photos. A coin flip gets 50%.

So we are building a station with controlled light and fixed geometry. Anything it cannot verify goes back to a person, and the tech still signs the count.

Run a sterile processing department?

We are looking for one SPD team to help us test the station on real trays. Fifteen minutes on how you check trays today helps too.