Telecytology: Is it possible with smartphone images?

Davut Sahin Uguray Payam HacisalihogluSaime Hale Kirimlioglu

Published in: Diagnostic cytopathology (2017)

This study showed that easy, fast, and high-quality image capturing and transfer is possible from cytology slides using smartphones. The intraobserver Kappa agreement between the microscopic cytopathological diagnoses and remote smartphone image diagnoses was high. It was found that remote diagnosis due to difficulties in telecytology might change patient management. The developments in the smartphone camera technology and transfer software make them efficient telepathology and telecytology tools.

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