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Introduction

The caBIG® Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) project defines an information model and software tools to capture and create image annotations and markups using well-defined common data elements and controlled terminologies. The current release of the AIM version 3.0 model has AIM Toolkit and AIM implementation on ClearCanvas workstation. To facilitate creating AIM annotations, an XML schema and an open source application called AIM Template Builder (ATB) have been created. ATB assists clinicians, image researchers, or clinical trial study designers to create a set of controlled questions and related answers to each question for a particular type of imaging study, without requiring knowledge of the AIM information model. A study’s image interpreters can make simple and constrained annotations in a structured format based on AIM templates.

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Download the workstation.

Features in

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the 1.1 Release

• New user interface that allows the ATB 1.1 user to assign a file name when uploading a template to ATS 1.0.
• New example lexicons
• Fixed search capability on ATS

Features in the 1.0 Release

This release supports Support AIM template version 1, revision 23.

Features in 1.0 Release

• Support pre and post-coordinated terms
• Support a question as a coded term
  • Anatomic Entity
  • Anatomic Entity Characteristic
  • Calculation
  • Geometric Shape (Markup)
  • Imaging Observation
  • Imaging Observation Characteristic
  • Inference
• Default lexicons
  • RadLex
  • RECIST
  • LIDC
  • Vasari
• Manage local lexicons
  • Create
  • Delete
  • Search
  • Tree view
• Warning messages when content in a template is incomplete
  • Reporting the location of a warning
  • Cannot export a template with warning

Support

If you need help, contact Application Support.

Send technical support requests to AIMTeam@northwestern.edu.

Documentation

• AIM Model Documentation
• AIM on ClearCanvas Workstation Documentation
• AIM Template Service Documentation
• AIM Template Manager Documentation

Web Sites

• caBIG Tools Page for AIM