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Support for Tissue Microarray (TMA)
By David Guet, Thomas Le Meur -
05 Feb 2021
For years now, digital pathology has seen the emergence of a plethora of heterogeneous different image types designed for clinical research use or routine diagnostics. Among them one can find tissue microarrays, or TMAs, introduced in the 1990s. TMA images differ from standard histopathological samples; instead of having a whole tissue section on a single slide, we find a large number of tissue cores organized on a grid, from different patients and, possibly from different tissue types. On one TMA slide, we can find several hundred samples.