MDPI	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
DOAJ	Directory of open access journals
TLA	Three-letter acronym
LD	Linear dichroism
TME	Total Mesorectal Excision
AL	Anastomotic Leakage
ML	Machine Learning
MIRECA	Minimally Invasive Rectal Cancer Taskforce
RLAR	Restorative Low Anterior Resection
MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
DCRA	Dutch ColoRectal Audit
ARJ	Anorectal Junction
TEM	Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery
NRLAR	Non-Restorative Low Anterior Resection
APR	Abdominoperineal Resection
STROBE	Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology
MEC-U	Medical Research Ethics Committees United
ISREC	International Study Group of Rectal Cancer
T2	T2-Weighted Imaging (MRI Sequence)
ICC	Intraclass Correlation Coefficient
SD	Standard Deviation
IQR	Interquartile Range
MAR	Missing at Random
MICE	Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations
ASA	American Society of Anesthesiologists
LR	Logistic Regression
RFC	Random Forest Classifier
XGB	XGBoost
SMOTE	Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique
AUC-PR	Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve
AUC-ROC	Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve