ncip / annotation-and-image-markup

Annotation and Image Markup (AIM) is the first project to propose and create a standard means of adding information and knowledge to an image in a clinical environment, so that image content can be easily and automatically searched.

Welcome to the Annotation and Image Markup Project!

Annotation and image markup is an Open Source project that provides the functionalities to propose and create a standard means of adding information and knowledge to an image in a clinical environment, so that image content can be easily and automatically searched. AIM provides a solution to the following imaging challenges:

• No agreed upon syntax for annotation and markup
• No agreed upon semantics to describe annotations
• No standard format (for example, DICOM, XML, HL7) for annotations and markup

The AIM project includes the following.

• The AIM Model captures the descriptive information for an image with user-generated graphical symbols placed on the image into a single common information source.
• The AIM Template Service is a web service application that makes it possible for you to upload (publish) and download AIM templates created using an AIM tool such as AIM Template Builder.
• The AIM Template Builder is a Java application that allows you to build templates that are compatible with the AIM Model. Templates are a set of well-defined questions and answer choices that facilitate collecting information for a study. The AIM Template Builder has replaced the AIM Template Manager.
• AIM on ClearCanvas Workstation is a reference implementation of the AIM Model. AIM on ClearCanvas Workstation demonstrat

It is written in C, C++, Visual C++, Java using XML and ClearCanvas Workstation. The goal of Annotation and Image Markup Project is to develop a mechanism, for modeling, capturing, and serializing image annotation and markup data that can be adopted as a standard by the medical imaging community.

AIM is distrubuted under the BSD 3-Clause License. Please see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for details.

You will find more details about AIM in the following links:

• [Community Wiki] (https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/x/z4X3Ag)
• Issue Tracker
• [AIM - Information Model(AIM)] (https://tracker.nci.nih.gov/browse/AIM)
• [AIM - Enterprise Service(AIMES)] (https://tracker.nci.nih.gov/browse/AIMES)
• [ AIM - Workstation (AIMWS)] (https://tracker.nci.nih.gov/browse/AIMWS)
• [Code Repository] (https://github.com/NCIP/annotation-and-image-markup)
• [View Website] (http://imaging.fsm.northwestern.edu/templates/web)

Please join us in further developing and improving Annotation and Markup(AIM).

annotation-and-image-markup's Issues

Request help on AIMConverter.exe

Hi Dear Sir/Madam,

Thanks for sharing this valuable toolkit!
I have a problem, I want to convert the AIM XML files to DICOM-RT file.
I use the following command:

C:\annotation-and-image-markup-master\AIMToolkit_v4.0.0_rv44\source\AIMLib\Release\x64>AIMConverter.exe -i AIM -o SR AMC-003.xml AMC-003

But there are some errors as follows:

Error: Error writing annotation(s) to file "AMC-003":
Annotation Collection Validation Errors:
Annotation Collection Unique Identifier
II value is not a valid UID
UID must constist of digits and periods(.) only

Usage:
AIMConverter.exe -i[nput] AIM|SR|CDA -o[utput] AIM|SR|CDA input_file output_file

If convenient, could you please give some advice? Thanks a lot!