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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 specifying 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 complete once the template is imported into an imaging application. For example, "Lesion".
   Description	Explanatory text about the component; for example, "Select the type of lesion".
   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
   The AIM Template Manager automatically saves your work after each selection you make. An animated image appears to indicate when a save is occurring.

To add a Calculation component to a template
Calculation components require that you add not only the basic information about the component but also additional information about the calculation. The template requests the following information about a component of the Calculation AIM class.

Add a Characteristic to a Component

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1. Add a characteristic to the component. Below the characteristic, one Allowed Terms entry row appears.

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   To add additional allowed terms, click to add another row. Similarly, to delete an allowed term associated with a characteristic, select it and then click

2. To select an allowed term from a lexicon you have created, find it in the Search Lexicon Terms panel on the right by following these steps.
   
   1. Enter the term you want to search for. You can also enter only part of the term, such as "Tum" for "Tumor".
   2. Click at least one lexicon where you believe the term you are searching for is located. You can select more than one lexicon by clicking one, pressing and holding the Shift or Ctrl key, and then selecting the next one.
   3. Click . All lexicon entries containing the word you entered appear in the search results.
   4. Select an Allowed Terms row where you want to add the allowed term.
   5. Click the button below the Search Lexicon Terms panel. The allowed term appears in the Allowed Terms row you selected.

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      title Showing and hiding panels
      If you cannot scroll any further to the right to see all of the fields of an allowed term, you can hide the Search Lexicon Terms panel. Likewise, you can show a hidden panel. Each panel in the AIM Template Manager has a small arrow in the middle of it, shown below, that you can click to show or hide it.

3. To add an allowed term manually, specify information about it into the relevant fields on the page, which are described below.

   Field	Description
   Term	The allowed term's name.
   Code	Unique code that identifies the term.
   Source	Where the term originated.
   Ask if Present	If you select this box, the template will instruct the imaging application to ask for this information if the characteristic is present. This box is not available for the Inference and Calculation AIM classes.

Editing a Template

To edit a template

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