Digital imaging for the education of proper surgical hand disinfection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6893 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2011, Pages 619-626

  Haidegger, Tamás ^a   Nagy, Melinda ^a   Lehotsky, Ákos ^a   Szilágyi, László ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

hospital acquired infection; image segmentation; semi supervised fuzzy c means clustering; surgical hand disinfection

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; DIGITAL IMAGING; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; FUZZY C-MEANS ALGORITHMS; GENERIC SOLUTIONS; GOLD STANDARDS; HAND CONTOUR; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; HEALTHCARE SERVICES; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION; HUNGARY; MEDICAL STUDENTS; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION; OBJECTIVE FEEDBACK; PROCESSING TIME; ROMANIA; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SINGAPORE; SKIN SURFACES;

COPYING; DISINFECTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SURGERY; TEACHING;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEACHING;

ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HANDWASHING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEACHING;

EID: 80053502191     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23626-6_76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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