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Understanding AIM Terms and Concepts

The AIM uses the following three basic concepts are IMAGING OBSERVATIONS, ANATOMIC ENTITIES and INFERENCES: Imaging Observations, Anatomic Entities and Inferences.

  • "Mass", "lesion", "focus" are all examples of IMAGING OBSERVATIONS.
  • "Occipital lobe", "parietal lobe" "Medial segment of middle lobe of right lung", etc. are all ANATOMIC ENTITIES.
  • "Speech center involvement", "pleural effusion"," pneumonia" are all examples of INFERENCES.

Once we define OBSERVATIONS (OBS) and , ANATOMIC ENTITIES (AE), and INFERENCES (INF), we can then look at their CHARACTERISTICS of those things...

  • "Speculated", "Rim enhancement", "cystic", are all IMAGING OBSERVATION CHARACTERISTICS.
  • "Dilated", "Ruptured", etc. are examples of ANATOMIC ENTITY CHARACTERISTICS.

Once we define IMAGING OBSERVATION CHARACTERISTICS and ANATOMIC ENTITY CHARACTERISTICS, we can then talk about QUANTIFICATION of these characteristics.

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