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1. Select the template to which you want to add a component from the Template Name panel.
2. From the buttons in the Template Components panel, click . A new Template Components section of the panel appears.
   
3. Customize your template component by selecting options from the items in the table below.

   Field	Description
   Label	Double-click this field to add a label. A label becomes a heading in the image annotation form that users will complete when once the template is imported into another an imaging application.
   Description	An optional description of the component.
   AIM Class	Select an AIM class from the list. As the image below of the expanded list shows, AIM class options are Anatomic Entity, Imaging Observation, Inference, and Calculation.
   Min	The minimum number of times the template will allow users this select this term when they annotate an image.
   Max	The maximum number of times the template will allow users to select this term when they annotate an image.
   Display	Select this box to display this component in the template.
   Confidence	Specify the confidence interval for the value users will enter for this component. Expected values are 0 through 100.
   Authors	The AIM Template Manager user who created this component.

   Tip
   title Saving your work
   Each time you enter a value into a field or make a selection, AIM Template Manager saves your work.

4. If the component is an Anatomic Entity or Imaging Observation, add a characteristic to the component. If the component is a Calculation, add the specified information about it (Description, MathML, Algorithm Name, and Algorithm Version).
5. Specify the characteristic's allowed terms.

Add a Characteristic to a Component

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To add a characteristic to a component

When you add an Anatomic Entity or Imaging Observation component to your template, you must add one or more characteristics to it. While the component entry itself results in a heading once you import the template into an imaging application, the characteristics serve as options in a list. For example, the component might be "Lesion" while one of its characteristics might be "Mass".

Calculation components also require additional information but it is associated with the component itself and not a separate characteristic. Inference components do not have associated characteristics.

To add a characteristic to a component

1. Create a component of the Anatomic Entity or Imaging Observation AIM class.
2. Specify information describing the characteristic, as follows.

   Field	Description
   Label	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.
   Description	An optional description of the characteristic.
   Min	The minimum number of times the template will allow users this select this term when they annotate an image.
   Max	The maximum number of times the template will allow users to select this term when they annotate an image.
   Display	Select this box to display this component in the template.
   Confidence	Specify the confidence interval for the value users will enter for this characteristic. Expected values are 0 through 100.
   Authors	The AIM Template Manager user who created this characteristic.

3. Add allowed terms. You can add them manually in this
4. Create a component of the Anatomic Entity, Imaging Observation, or Calculation AIM class.
5. Add allowed terms. You can add them manually in this field or select them from a lexicon you have created.
   • To add an allowed term manually, double-click in the Label field and enter the term that you want tospecify information about it into the relevant fields on the page, which are described below.

     Field	Description
     Term
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     Source
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Specify Allowed Terms

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