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1. Add a template component of the Anatomic Entity or Imaging Observation AIM class.
2. Right-click the component and select Create Anatomic Entity Characteristic () or Create Imaging Observation Characteristic ().

3. Specify information describing the characteristic, as follows.

   Field	Description
   Label	Required field. Double-click this field to add a label. A label becomes a heading in the image annotation form that users complete once the template is imported into an imaging application. For example, "Lesion".
   Explanatory Text	Description of the component; for example, "Select the type of lesion".
   Answer Choices	Required field. The minimum and maximum number of times the users may select this term when they annotate an image. Info The number of default answers you specify for an answer choice must equal the minimum number you specify here.
   Should Display	Required field. Select this box to display this component in the template. In certain situations, information in a component is known and will not be changed.
   Annotator Confidence	Required field. Display or hide this value. Annotator confidence is a percentage that represents the level of user confidence in answering the question.
   Require Comment	Select Yes or No to indicate whether users must provide a comment when answering this question.
   Authors	Describes the AIM Template Builder user who created this component.
   Group Label	Describes any text that you want to associate with one or more template components and thereby group them together for display purposes.

   NoteIf Should Display field is not selected for this template characteristic and the minimum number in the Answer Choices field is set to greater than 1, the number of default answers must match the minimum number

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4. Click Save.
5. Add an answer choice to the characteristic.
6. Create a characteristic quantification.