The medicine-technical instrument identification system comprises multiple optical sensors (11,12,13) and data processing devices (14,15) for detection of a medical instrument (1), which is used in a medicine-technical navigation. The optical sensors and the data processing devices are assigned to a medicine-technical instrument tracking system (10), where the data processing device comprises a videometric pattern recognition. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a method for detection of a medical instrument (2) a program, loaded in a computer for executing a medical instrument detection method (3) a computer program storage medium with a program for executing a medical instrument detection method.
