Can Pathml support or read in “.TMAP” formatted WSI file?

[liuxiaoping2020]

Dear author,

Thank you for reading my request. I wonder to know that whether the pathml supports ".TMAP" formatted WSI file? The ".TMAP" might be produced by a company called Unic Technologies (http://www.unic-tech.cn/). There's a Chinese patent describing the file format (https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/c2/8b/72/b592fc756af7b4/CN1928871A.pdf). English version here (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN100429658C/en).

And a sample ".TMAP" formatted WSI is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1URrrS3m6qPyGCJ2XG_hcyYIMOpqypV-M/view?usp=sharing

Best regards
Xiaoping

[jacob-rosenthal]

Hello, the list of supported wsi file formats can be found in the documentation here. At the moment .tmap is not supported. If you want to use these images in PathML pipelines, the best options are probably to write a custom PathML backend or to ask the BioFormats team to add support. Thanks