title: Image markup
text: # Image markup
  
  Image markup is markup language that attaches annotations to image files. It is a critical technology for many researchers and practitioners, especially in the field of medicine.
  
  The term 'image markup' is also sometimes used to refer to vector graphics formats, such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), or to refer to the syntax used to incorporate images into a hypertext markup document.
  
  ## Standards and applications
  
  Several standards and applications exist to attach annotations to image files. These include:
  
  * Image Markup Tool, which is an extension to the Text Encoding Initiative format,
  * Evernote Skitch,
  * Annotation and Image Markup (AIM), part of caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid), run by the U.S. National Cancer Institute,
  * Image Markup Language, University of Washington derived from the Digital Anatomist Frame Format
  * Oracle WebCenter Imaging
  