| AUC-ROC | area under the receiver operating curve |
| BPD | bronchopulmonary dysplasia |
| CSVT | cerebral sinovenous thrombosis |
| EVD | extraventricular drainage |
| GA | gestational age |
| IVH | intraventricular hemorrhage |
| IVHgrade_L | degree of IVH in the left-brain hemisphere |
| IVHgrade_MAX | maximum degree of IVH |
| IVHgrade_R | degree of IVH in the right-brain hemisphere |
| IVHgrade_SUM | summed degree of IVH |
| IVHuni_bi | unilateral or bilateral IVH |
| ML | machine learning |
| NAIS | neonatal arterial ischemic stroke |
| NEC | necrotizing enterocolitis |
| NEFL | neurofilament light chain |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NPX | Normalized Protein eXpression |
| NSI | neurosurgical intervention |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PDA | persistent ductus arteriosus |
| PEA | Proximity Extension Assay |
| PHVD | posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation |
| PHVDp | posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation positive |
| PHVDn | posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation negative |
| PLS-DA | partial least square discriminate analysis |
| PVCA | principal variance component analysis |
| PVL | periventricular leukomalacia |
| qPCR | quantitative polymerase chain reaction |
| RF | random forests |
| ROP | retinopathy of prematurity |
| rCCA | regularized canonical correlation analysis |
| VIP | variable importance projection |