PMA.start is a free viewer and a popular choice for those starting with digital pathology and wishing to explore. When choosing a desktop slide viewer PMA.start has several advantages over other viewers.

• Web-based browser; front-end runs in the webbrowser of your choice
• Examine brighfield, fluorescent, and z-stacked slide content from the same environment
• Plug and play support for external hard disks
• ImageJ/FIJI plugin available for smooth transition of slide content for IA algo development
• SDKs available through Github

Use PMA.start to view whole slide images stored on your pc local drives

• Look at brightfield slides
• Look at fluorescent slides
• look at z-stacked slides

Because PMA.start also includes a local tile server, you can use the software for automation, too.

For more use cases, we invite to keep an eye out for our RealData blog, where we regularly post technical background articles and provide sample code for various programming languages, including Python, PHP, and Java.