| Abbreviations | Extensions |
| ENT | Ear-nose-throat |
| OM | Otitis media |
| OME | Otitis media effusion |
| AOM | Acute otitis media |
| COM | Chronic otitis media |
| CSOM | Chronic suppurative otitis media |
| PCD | Primary ciliated dyskinesia |
| TM | Tympanic membrane |
| ABG | Air-bone gap |
| FNDs | Fluorescent nanodiamonds |
| VPO | Video pneumatic otoscope |
| OCT | Optical coherence tomography |
| WBT | Wideband tympanometry |
| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| CNN | Convolutional neural networks |
| ML | Machine learning |
| DL | Deep learning |
| CV | Computer vision |
| NLP | Natural language processing |
| XAI | Explainable artificial intelligence |
| Grad-CAM | Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping |
| BOW | Bag-of-words model |
| NCA | Neighborhood component analysis |
| FNN | Feedforward artificial neural networks |