PMA.core operates through web protocols and supports a number of file formats, allowing you to manipulate WSI data from different vendors in a standardized manner. This enables efficient management of digital slide images while requiring minimal setup.

PMA.core manages your whole slide images. It is not responsible for viewing and other operations such as annotations, data capture, and image analysis. While PMA.core contains the necessary functions to retain these types of data, it does not provide end-user interfaces to create and manipulate it. The software acts as a broker between the various vendor-dependent file formats on one end, and a variety of different end-user applications on the other: The end-user applications are typically referred to as “downstream” applications in this manual. They can be other member-components of our platform (PMA.view is an excellent viewer), but they may be completely custom-built by third-parties as well (in which case communication with PMA.core is conveniently facilitated through webservices). This type of broker-like interaction enables both downstream viewing and analysis. PMA.core allows adopters of WSI to build a context around each slide (on-slide graphical annotations and form-data) and manage this as needed.