Purpose: Immediate X-ray examination is necessary while the surgical needle falls off during operation. In this study, one convolutional neural network (CNN) model was introduced for automatically surgical needle detection in craniofacial X-ray images.
Materials And Methods: The craniofacial surgical needle (5-0, ETHICON, USA) was localized in 8 different anatomic regions of 2 pig heads for bilateral X-ray examination separately.