| IHC | Immunohistochemistry |
| ACD | Automatic Color Deconvolution |
| GIMP | GNU Image Manipulation Program |
| SVD | Singular Value Decomposition |
| CAP | College of American Pathologists |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| H&E | Hematoxylin and Eosin |
| DCIS | Ductal Carcinoma In Situ |
| CD | Color Deconvolution |
| OD | Optical Density |
| CS | Contrast Stretching |
| STRESS | Spatio-Temporal Retinex-like Envelope with Stochastic Sampling |
| SS | Stain Separation |
| SPAMS | SPArse Modeling Software |
| FC | Fuzzy Clustering |
| RSSFCA | Robust Self-Sparse Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm |
| SPCN | Structure-Preserving Color Normalization |
| SNMF | Sparse Non-negative Matrix Factorization |
| QSSIM | Quaternion Structural SIMilarity |
| VQM | Visual Quality Matrix |
| QIP | Quaternion Image Processing |
| CNACD | Classification of Nuclei in Breast Cancer IHC based on Automatic Color Deconvolution |
| BLT | Beer–Lambert transformation |
| IBLT | Inverted Beer–Lambert transformation |
| TP | True Positive |
| TN | True Negative |
| FN | False Negative |
| FP | False Positive |
| QBRIX | Quantile-Based Retinex |
| RBFA | Retinex-Based Fast Algorithm |