The PMA.core Engine
At the heart of all Pathomation’s Digital Pathology applications lies PMA.core; a CE-IVD certified powerful, vendor-agnostic image management system (IMS) designed for speed, flexibility, and scalability.
PMA.core eliminates the barriers of proprietary whole slide image (WSI) formats by acting as a universal broker between scanners, storage systems, and end-user applications. Whether you’re working with brightfield, fluorescence, or z-stacks, PMA.core ensures consistent, high-performance viewing and interaction with your slides.
Beyond viewing, PMA.core empowers organizations to manage their entire digital pathology ecosystem. From storage and access control to indexing, annotations, and metadata management, it offers a single, unified environment that integrates seamlessly with your workflows.
With its open, developer-friendly API and support for modern standards like OAuth SSO, PMA.core makes it easy to embed digital pathology functionality into your own applications or build new solutions from the ground up.
Key Highlights:
✅ Unmatched file format coverage – widest support for proprietary and open WSI formats
✅ Flexible storage – read slides efficiently from S3, Azure Blob, FTP, or network shares
✅ Advanced viewing – brightfield, fluorescence, and z-stack support
✅ Powerful data management – organize slides, annotations, and metadata in one place
✅ Indexing & search – built-in, high-speed repository search
✅ User & group management – granular permissions and access control
✅ Secure access – OAuth SSO support for enterprise environments
✅ Regulatory readiness – 21 CFR Part 11 and CE-IVD compliant use
✅ Open integration – developer-friendly APIs and SDKs for custom applications
PMA.core doesn’t just power Pathomation’s own solutions (PIMSDX, PIMSLS, My Pathomation & PathoTrainer) – it can power yours too.
What does PMA.core offer for software developers: Integrate & extend
The pathomation IMS software exposes comprehensive RESTful APIs that enable you to extend it’s functionality as well as to integrate it in your own application in order to give it digital pathology capabilities. IT with extensive documentation, SDKs and tools that can get you started right away. Learn more
PMA.UI
web-centric visualization framework
PMA.python
Interactive (Jupyter) scripting and back-end integration
PMA.php
Web-enabled visualization and back-end integration
PMA.java
Back-end integration