ACV-DHOA	Adaptive Coefficient Vector-based Deer Hunting Optimization Algorithm
Adam	Adaptive Moment Estimation
AFDF	Adaptive Fuzzy Deformable Fusion
AFMS-Net	Adaptive Feature Medical Segmentation Network
AFSO	Artificial Fish Swarm Optimization
AHCN-LNQ	Adaptive Histogram Contrast Normalization with Learning-based Neural Quantization
ALO	Ant-Lion Optimization
ARKFCM	Adaptively Regularized Kernel-Based Fuzzy C-Means
ASME	Angular Second Momentum and Entropy
AWF	Adaptive Wiener Filtering
BDWCNN	Bayesian Depth-Wise CNN
BFC	BayesianFuzzy Clustering
BiFPN	Bi-directional Feature Pyramid Network
Bi-MGLCM	Bi-directional Modified GLCM
BTP	Brain-Tumor-Progression
BraTS	Brain Tumor Segmentation
CBAM	Convolutional Block Attention Module
CDLLC	Convolutional Dictionary Learning with Local Constraint
CE-MRI	Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
CLAHE	Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization
CNNs	Convolutional Neural Networks
CWCSO	Chaotic Whale Cat Swarm Optimization
DNN	Deep Neural Network
DWA	Deep Watershed Autoencoders
DLCR	Deep Learning Cascade Regression
DRN	Deep Residual Networks
DSC	Dice Similarity Coefficient
DT	Decision Tree
DWT	Discrete Wavelet Transform
ECKC	European Cyber-Knife Center
EHDMO	Hybrid Dwarf Mongoose Optimization
ELM	Extreme Learning Machine
ELM-LRF	ELM with Local Receptive Fields
FESAE	Feature Enhanced Stacked Autoencoder
FPFC	Fractional Probabilistic Fuzzy Clustering
FC	Fractional Calculus
FCNs	Fully Convolutional Networks
GANs	Generative Adversarial Networks
GA	Genetic Algorithm
GATE-CNN	Graph Attention Autoencoder-CNN
GBM	Glioblastoma Multiforme
GGL	Group Lasso
GLCM	Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix
GLR	Graph Laplacian Regularization
GMCNN	Gabor-modulated CNN
GN	Group Normalization
GMM	Gaussian Mixture Model
Grad-CAM	Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping
GRUs	Gated Recurrent Units
HOG	Histogram of Oriented Gradients
IAI	Interpretable AI
IoT	Internet of Things
IoU	Intersection over Union
ISLES	Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation
JOA	Jaya Optimization Algorithm
KNN	K-Nearest Neighbor
LBP	Local Binary Pattern
LDA	Linear Discriminant Analysis
LoG	Laplacian of Gaussian
LSTM	Long Short-Term Memory
MICCAI	Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention conference
MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MMGAN	Multi-Modal Generative Adversarial Network
MS-SSIM	Multi-Scale Structural Similarity Index Measure
PCA	Principal Component Analysis
PSO	Particle Swarm Optimization
POD	Proper Orthogonal Decomposition
QTbMPA	Quantum Theory-based Marine Predator Algorithm
RF	Random Forest
ResNet	Residual Network architecture
REMBRANDT	Repository of Molecular Brain Neoplasia Data
RNNs	Recurrent Neural Networks
RPNs	Region Proposal Networks
ROI	Region Of Interest
SAM	Segment Anything Model
SAEB	Single Adaptive Encoder Block
SGDM	Stochastic Gradient Descent Method
SHAP	SHapley Additive exPlanations
ShCNN	Shepherd CNN
SLOOP	Significant Local Optimal Oriented Pattern
SMOTE	Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique
SVM	Support Vector Machine
SVM-RBF	SVM with Radial Basis Function
SPPF+	Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast+
ST	Scattering Transform
TCGA-GBM	The Cancer Genome Atlas Glioblastoma Multiforme
TCGA-LGG	The Cancer Genome Atlas Low Grade Glioma
T1-WCEMRI	T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI
VAEs	Variational Autoencoders
ViTs	lightweight Vision Transformers
VGG	Visual Geometry Group architecture
WPTE	Wavelet Packet Tsallis Entropy
XAI	eXplainable AI