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Working with Template Groups

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The AIM Template Manager automatically saves your work after each selection you make. An animated image appears to indicate when a save is occurring.

Adding a Template Group

A template group is a container that holds individual templates.

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AIM Template Manager Concept

Annotation Concept

Component

Item being annotated; for example, Tumor Location

Characteristic

Descriptive element of that item; for example, Site of Tumor Center

Allowed Term

Word that may be used to describe the descriptive element; for example, Frontal lobe

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The AIM Template Manager automatically saves your work after each selection you make. An animated image appears to indicate when a save is occurring.

Creating a Template

To create a template

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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 Create template component button. A new Template Components section of the panel appears.
    New Template Components section before any options have been selected.
  3. Customize your template component by specifying the items in the table below. titleSaving your work

    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.
    "AIM class drop-down list expanded to show all four options.

    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.

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    user who created this component.

Add a Calculation Component to a Template

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You must first create a lexicon, then add lexicon entries to it. Those lexicon entries become the allowed terms that you add to a template.

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The AIM Template Manager automatically saves your work after each selection you make. An animated image appears to indicate when a save is occurring.

Create a Lexicon

To create a lexicon

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