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This page introduces the caBIG® Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) terms and concepts, helping you relate known medical vocabulary to terms used by the AIM Model version 3.0.

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A component can be one of the following types.

• Anatomic Entity
  Anatomic Entity CharacteristicImaging ObservationImaging Observation CharacteristicInferenceCalculation 

Anatomic entity may have one or more anatomic entity characteristics. An anatomic entity characteristic contains every attribute that a component has. It has “annotator confidence” that allows a user to enter a level of user’s confidence answering the question in terms of a percentage. A characteristic may have a quantification value.
 

• Anatomic Entity CharacteristicQuantificationIntervalScaleQuantileNon-

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• quantifiableNumerical 

Imaging observation may have one or more imaging observation characteristics. An imaging observation characteristic contains every attribute that a component has. It has “annotator confidence” that allows a user to enter a level of user’s confidence answering the question in terms of a percentage. A characteristic may have a of the below quantifications and non-quantifiable.
 

• Imaging Observation CharacteristicQuantificationIntervalScaleQuantileNon-

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• quantifiableNumerical 

AIM Template Creation Process 

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