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The AIM Template Manager allows you to create XML documents that can be imported into applications that other applications. These XML documents, or templates, allow users to annotate medical images using a controlled vocabulary and standard template. This results , resulting 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. These annotations are stored as unstructured text and separated from graphical drawings, which are typically in a proprietary format on an imaging system. Extracting this valuable medical information from free text and combining them with drawings from those sources are both time on another system is time-consuming and cumbersome to filter and search.

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