Hand Hygiene Quality Assessment Using Image-to-Image Translation

Abstract

Hand hygiene can reduce the transmission of pathogens and prevent healthcare-associated infections. Ultraviolet (UV) test is an effective tool for evaluating and visualizing hand hygiene quality during medical training. However, due to various hand shapes, sizes, and positions, systematic documentation of the UV test results to summarize frequently untreated areas and validate hand hygiene technique effectiveness is challenging. Previous studies often summarize errors within predefined hand regions, but this only provides low-resolution estimations of hand hygiene quality. Alternatively, previous studies manually translate errors to hand templates, but this lacks standardized observational p..