TY - GEN
T1 - Toward the evaluation of handwashing skills based on image processing
AU - Yamamoto, Kazushi
AU - Miyanaga, Kazuya
AU - Miyahara, Haruka
AU - Yoshii, Miho
AU - Kinoshita, Fumiya
AU - Touyama, Hideaki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/7/2
Y1 - 2018/7/2
N2 - Various infectious diseases have been known today. In hospitals, according to international guidelines, the hand hygiene is educated and practiced through handwashing for the purpose of preventing infectious diseases. Actually, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the skills of handwashing. However, in the previous works, the quantitative and objective evaluations have not been performed. In this paper, we propose a new method to evaluate the skill of handwashing. The method is based on the image processing, and the evaluation is realized in a quantitative and qualitative manner. Eighty-four students in department of nursing participated in our experiment, and our proposed method was validated. As the result, the area of pseudo-dirty spots on hand after washing could be extracted quantitatively and objectively. Our method will be applicable to education of nursing toward the prevention of infection spread.
AB - Various infectious diseases have been known today. In hospitals, according to international guidelines, the hand hygiene is educated and practiced through handwashing for the purpose of preventing infectious diseases. Actually, several studies have been conducted to evaluate the skills of handwashing. However, in the previous works, the quantitative and objective evaluations have not been performed. In this paper, we propose a new method to evaluate the skill of handwashing. The method is based on the image processing, and the evaluation is realized in a quantitative and qualitative manner. Eighty-four students in department of nursing participated in our experiment, and our proposed method was validated. As the result, the area of pseudo-dirty spots on hand after washing could be extracted quantitatively and objectively. Our method will be applicable to education of nursing toward the prevention of infection spread.
KW - Evaluation
KW - Hand hygiene
KW - Handwashing skills
KW - Image processing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067117846&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2018.00141
DO - 10.1109/SCIS-ISIS.2018.00141
M3 - 会議への寄与
AN - SCOPUS:85067117846
T3 - Proceedings - 2018 Joint 10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 19th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS-ISIS 2018
SP - 855
EP - 858
BT - Proceedings - 2018 Joint 10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 19th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS-ISIS 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - Joint 10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 19th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS-ISIS 2018
Y2 - 5 December 2018 through 8 December 2018
ER -