PainMap image not quite consistent with international definitions about imagemap HOT 3 OPEN

Hi David, thank you for pointing this out! I will check our options and get back to you.

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David, the license to the CHOIR painmaps is not clear to me either. I don't know who has the freedom to modify them. I'm looping in Andy Martin (@123andy) who originally worked with the CHOIR team to make these part of REDCap. He might be able to get you the license you need to make a different, more standards-oriented variation of the painmaps.

All that said, I don't see anything stopping you from creating your own painmaps independent of the CHOIR work. Here are the required steps:

1. Acquire or draw some images showing the standard regions.
2. Use an online web app like https://www.image-map.net/ to draw the regions on each image.
3. Name the regions in the image map files created in step 2 to conform the standard.
4. Give your maps a meaningful short name
5. Write a 1 sentence description of your image maps
6. Create the block of JSON to add to the modules config.json
7. Optionally write a longer description of your image map. This might be important to explain what standards they conform to and the kind of data they will store in REDCap.

There's some technical work to integrate all of these pieces into the existing module, but that is much less time consuming than the steps above.

If you want someone to help with the technical work, we are available for hire if you have funds.

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Hi @pbchase et al

Thanks for your reply. Plenty of pain drawings / maps / manniquins have previously been developed. This one is from 1986!

However, what is somewhat original with the CHOIR drawings is the gender choice and equivalence of regions - I've not seen this before, and it is very easy to implement a choice in RECap based on an earlier question for preferred gender identity. The CHOIR images also rightly include a separate region covering each major joint (knee, elbow, shoulder, ankle, etc.)

I'm keen that these agreed definitions are implemented in tools like this so that we encourage studies to produce comparable data. If we can modify the current CHOIR images, that would be great. If not, I'm happy to try to produce new images, but would need help with stage 6 (I have no idea how to do that). Oh, and I'm doing this unfunded, in a small attempt to make the world a better place...

Best wishes,

David

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