Image microarrays derived from tissue microarrays (IMA-TMA): New resource for computer-aided diagnostic algorithm development
Background: Conventional tissue microarrays (TMAs) consist of cores of tissue inserted into a recipient paraffin block such that a tissue section on a single glass slide can contain numerous patient samples in a spatially structured pattern.Scanning TMAs into digital slides for subsequent analysis by computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) algorithms ANTI-