Hi Peter,

radiology report differ from radiologist to radiologist not sure what report you are generating. As AIM is Annotation and Image Markup language, so your exported XML document will contains the annotation of a radiologist that did the analysis of scan.

if you wants to have annotation in your end-report only then export the data into AIM.

lets say radiologist A and B discussed an image one after other, radiologist A mark the area on image and written " I think its a cancer". when radiologist B seen the image he written "no its not but its due to bla bla" both radiologist agreed on it. now end report generated, which will not have all those conversation.

Here are more resources on AIM

Annotation and Image Markup - AIM XML format wiki ( https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/AIM/Annotation+and+Image+Markup+-+AIM#AnnotationandImageMarkup-AIM-InstallationandDownloads )

Few application:

http://cabig.cancer.gov/escientist/research/applications/aim/

You will also find the link to public repository

Go for Oracle XML DB if you wants to have all those exported AIM archive.

Based on the AIM XML XSD here (https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/download.php/8990/AIM_v3_rv11_XMI_XML_Schemas.zip) you can let Java’s JAXB binding compiler generate the Java code for the parser.

see high level architecture of JAXB here (

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/index-140168.html)

So here is how I generated the parser code (from command prompt):

\jdk1.7.0_01\bin>xjc -p peter.parsers.jaxb.aim -d D:\development\workspace\aimparser\src\ D:\development\workspace\AIM\schemas\AIM_v3_rv11_XML.xsd

Explanation of command:

xjc : the JDK executable responsible for translating the XSD into a set of Java files that work as "the parser" for this XML structure

-p peter.parsers.jaxb.aim : the desired package name in which to place the generated classes

-d D:\development\workspace\aimparser\src\ : directory where to place the generated classes

D:\development\workspace\AIM\schemas\AIM_v3_rv11_XML.xsd : the XML Schema Definition file (XSD)

The generated code can be used to read the XML document (using getter methods) and write new XML content (using setter methods). unmarshall step will be some thing like

AIM aim = (AIM)unmarshaller.unmarshal(new File(fileName));

I'm usually at UMCG on Wed, Thru. if you would like we can discuss it next week

A related article

http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/31/3/881.full

Hi Ishtiaq,

Funny to find out how close the answer to ones questions sometimes is...

I'm out of the office from Wednesday onwards, I will contact you directly to see when we could make an appointment.

Peter