Cytopathology laboratory's quality assessment is achieved by continuous monitoring of interobserver or intraobserver diagnostic reproducibility, and concordance between histological and cytological diagnosis. Internal and external quality control programs are focusing on the continuous monitoring of both interobserver and intraobserver diagnostic agreement (Chantziantoniou et al., 2017).
Telecytology is the interpretation of cytology material at a distance using digital images. The routine practice of telecytology may take place between a cytopathologist and another cytopathologist in a remote location (Caron et al., 2018). Static telecytology systems capture cytologic pictures in a digital format followed by transmission to a distant observer. In its purest form, a static system comprises of a digital microscopic workstation comprising of a microscope attached to a camera and a computer with high processing capacity and modem or internet connections. The same static telecytology systems can capture short representative videos from selected fields during microscopy. Digital images and videos can be stored to different directories, transferred via ðle transfer protocol to speciðc password-protected accounts, or shared via web and cloud applications (Brooker et al., 2019; Caron et al., 2018).