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You use the AIM Template Manager to design templates based on 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.

AIM templates are based on the AIM template XML schema, which in turn is based on the AIM model.

Why Use the AIM Model?

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.

The AIM model begins to solve this problem by capturing the descriptive information of an image with user-generated graphical symbols placed on the image into a single common information source. AIM captures medical findings using standard vocabularies such as RadLex, SNOMED CT, DICOM, and user-defined terminology. Image information captured in the AIM model includes the anatomic entity and its characteristics, imaging observation and its characteristics, and inference. However, existing vocabularies used to describe medical images contain thousands of terms that make it difficult for users to find and then include them in their AIM annotations.

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  1. Click the Template Groups tab.
  2. Select a template group from the Group Name panel.
  3. Below the left panel, click Upload template group button. The upload window appears, as shown below.
    Small window containing a browse button and and upload button.
  4. Click Browse to navigate to a location on your home drive where the XML file is that you want to upload. The AIM Template Manager will only accept template group files that have been validated by the AIM Template XML schema. This file could have been downloaded from the AIM Template Manager or it could have been created manually using the AIM Template Modeltemplate XML schema.
  5. Click Upload. The template group appears in the Group Name panel.

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