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The AIM Template Manager allows you to create XML documents that can be imported into other applications. These XML documents, or templates, allow Once imported into another application, the information in these XML documents allows users to annotate medical images using a controlled vocabulary and standard template, resulting . This results in simple and constrained annotations that are reproducible and consistent.

To create these XML documents, you use the AIM Template Manager to design templates using a lexicon of standard and user-definable terms. You can then collect multiple templates into template groups. You complete the process by downloading a template group as an XML file to your local computer.

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 and combining them with drawings on another system is time-consuming and cumbersome to filter and search.

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