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The AIM Template Manager allows you to create XML documents , or templates, that help users that can be imported into applications that allow users to annotate medical images using a controlled vocabulary and standardized standard template. This results in simple and constrained annotations that are reproducible and consistent. These XML documents contain one or more templates that you can create within the AIM Template Manager.

Background

Imaging reports contain both graphical drawings and medical knowledge in the form of annotations. Extracting these annotations from thMedical knowledge contained within an imaging report is stored in an unstructured text format These annotations are stored as unstructured text and separated from graphical drawings. This knowledge is , which are typically in a proprietary format on an imaging system. The process of extracting Extracting this valuable medical information from free text and combining with drawings from those sources are both time consuming and cumbersome to filter and search.

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