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This guide explains how to use the caBIG® Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) Template Manager for AIM Information Model Version 3.0. The intended audience for this guide is a biomedical researcher familiar with the AIM information model.

Topics in this guide include:

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Getting Started with the AIM Template Manager

The AIM Template Manager allows you to create XML documents that can be imported into applications that allow users to annotate medical images using a controlled vocabulary and standard template. This results in simple and constrained annotations that are reproducible and consistent. These XML documents contain one or more templates that you can create within the AIM Template Manager.

Background

Imaging reports contain both graphical drawings and medical knowledge in the form of annotations. These annotations are stored as unstructured text and separated from graphical drawings, which are typically in a proprietary format on an imaging system. Extracting this valuable medical information from free text and combining with drawings from those sources are both time consuming and cumbersome to filter and search.

The AIM standard captures the descriptive information of an image with user-generated graphical symbols placed on the image into a single common information source. Medical findings are captured using standard vocabularies such as RadLex, SNOMED CT, DICOM, and user-defined terminology.

Image information captured in the AIM model is anatomic entity and its characteristic, imaging observation and its characteristic, and inference. Existing vocabularies contain thousands of terms that make it difficult for users to search and select criteria for inclusion as an AIM annotation.

The AIM Template Manager allows biomedical researchers to create their own templates

Working with Template Groups

Creating a Template Group

Editing a Template Group

Deleting a Template Group

Working with Templates

Creating a Template

Editing a Template

Deleting a Template

Building a Lexicon

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