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An AIM template consists of a set of related questions for a study. It captures the name, version, description, UID, controlled term applied to the template, authors, and creation date of a template. It also has one or more components. Each component represents a study question that may have one or more answers. Components can be any of the following: Anatomic Entity, Imaging Observation, Inferenceanatomic entity, imaging observation, inference, and Calculation. A component can be one of the following typescalculation. Both anatomic entities and imaging observations are also described by their associated characteristics.

Anatomic Entity Characteristics

Anatomic

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• Imaging Observation Characteristic

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Anatomic entity may have one or more anatomic entity characteristics. An anatomic entity characteristic contains every attribute that a component has. It has “annotator confidence” that allows a user to enter a level of user’s confidence answering the question in terms of a percentage. A characteristic may have a quantification value.

Anatomic Entity Characteristic

• Quantification
• Interval
• Scale
• Quantile
• Non-quantifiable
• Numerical

Imaging Observation Characteristics

Imaging observations observation may have one or more imaging observation characteristics. An imaging observation characteristic contains every attribute that a component hasinherits the attributes of the imaging observation. It has “annotator confidence” annotator confidence that allows a user to enter a level of user’s confidence answering the question in terms of a percentage. A characteristic may have a of the below quantifications and non-quantifiable.

Imaging Observation Characteristic

• Quantification
  • Interval
  • Scale
  • Quantile
  • Non-quantifiable
  • Numerical

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