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To activate the AIM template tool in Figure 5, click the AIM template tool button (#1). If you put the pin down (#2), you can detach the AIM Template tab by putting the mouse pointer at the header (#3) and dragging it out, as illustrated in Figure 5-16.
Figure 5. Activate AIM Template
Figure 5-16. Detached AIM Template Tool
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When an AIM annotation is created, the following conditions are applied (based on AIM default settings described in #Setting AIM Options)
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Importing a New AIM Template
An AIM template XML document can be imported by clicking the AIM Template button, as shown in Figure 67. Windows Explorer opens a predefined folder described in #Setting AIM Options.
Figure 67. Importing an AIM Template
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Author information as depicted in (Figure 78) can be changed. To use this feature, click the User Info button to activate the AIM User Information form. Enter appropriate information and click Save.
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If you are sharing the workstation with another reader, you must change or at least verify that the information in the "User Info" section reflects your personal credentials.
Figure 78. AIM User Information
Detailed Description of a Question
A detailed description of a question can be seen by placing the mouse pointer over the first three characters of each feature name, as shown in Figure 89.
Figure 89. Detail Description of a Question
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The AIM locator, depicted in (Figure 910), allows users to see existing AIM instances available in a study. A list of available AIM instances is displayed below the Available AIM Annotations section, which is #2 in the following image. To access this feature and see an AIM annotation, click Show Study, which is #3 in the following image.
Figure 910. AIM Locator
AIM Annotation Details
The AIM annotation details, as illustrated by Figure 1011, allow a user to examine detailed information captured in an AIM instance. To access this feature, you select an image containing an AIM instance and then click the AIM Details button, as shown in (#1). The AIM Annotation Details panel appears. This panel contains information tabs including Anatomic Entity, Imaging Observation, Calculations, and All Details. The All Details tab (shown in #3) allows a user to see information related to both Anatomic Entity and Imaging Observation and their characteristics.
Figure 1011. AIM Details
AIM Display Markups from Different Users
For a given image in an imaging study that has more than one reader interpreting and creating AIM annotations, the workstation can display every annotation while allowing you to turn off markups from a selected group of readers. Figure 11 12 depicts an image with three markups from three readers. The markup from reader named qwe-3 was turned off.
A right-mouse click on the image activates a pop-up menu with a Visible AIM Users option to turn readers' markups on or off.
Figure 1112. AIM Markup Display
By default, the workstation also displays annotations created by different users in different colors. Selecting Tools > Options > AIM > Markup allows you to change which colors are used for which user's AIM annotations (Figure 1213). Selected by default, the "Random" checkbox (#2) assigns a random color to each user. If you do not select that option, you can override the random color with a different color. You can also override the color used to depict one or more users' AIM annotations. Change the default color by clicking the button to the left of the checkbox. A user's color may be changed by clicking the color next to their name and selecting a new color in the dialog that appears. Users not yet loaded into the list may be added to the list by clicking the Add Login button (#3). Selected users may be removed from the list (resetting their colors to the default) by selecting the Remove Selected button (#4). All users in the list may be selected by clicking the Select All button (#5). Selected users may have their color reset to the default color, either random or predefined as determined by the Random checkbox (#2), by clicking the Reset To Default Color button (#6).
Figure 1213. AIM Markup Display
Viewing AIM Data for Each Image Series
You can see AIM annotations for an imaging study grouped by image series in the Available AIM Annotations section. Figure 12 14 shows two different image series. The first, Axial FSE, includes one AIM instance. The second, Axial T1, includes three AIM instances.
Figure 1314. AIM Data in Each Image Series
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The NBIA Data Service (Figure 1415) tab provides the ability to connect and retrieve studies from NBIA directly within the workstation. Holding the Ctrl key allows you to click on and select multiple studies. Right-clicking activates a feature that allows you to retrieve selected studies.
Figure 1415. NBIA Data Service
Users can enter search parameters (Figure 16) based on a single value or multiple values of Patient ID, Patient's Name, Sex, Birth Date, Project name at NCI, Slice Thickness, Study Instance UID, and Modality.
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