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. 2025 Sep 19;26(18):9178. doi: 10.3390/ijms26189178
ABC Artificial Bee Colony
ABM Agent-Based Modeling
ABMHAP Attention-Based Multi-Head Adaptive Pooling
AD Alzheimer’s Disease
ADASYN Adaptive Synthetic Sampling Approach for Imbalanced Learning
ADD Alzheimer’s Disease Detection
ADNI Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
ADRD Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
AI Artificial Intelligence
ALOX Arachidonate Lipoxygenase
ALX Lipoxin A4 Receptor
ANN Artificial Neural Network
AP Activator Protein
ATN Amyloid/Tau/Neurodegeneration
ATP Adenosine Triphosphate
AUC Area Under the Curve
BAT Bat Algorithm
BBB Blood–Brain Barrier
BCI Brain–Computer Interface
BIOCARD Biomarkers of Cognitive Decline Among Normal Individuals
BPA Bisphenol A
CART Classification and Regression Tree
CDRSUM Clinical Dementia Rating Sum of Boxes
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
CNS Central Nervous System
COX Cyclooxygenase
CRP C-Reactive Protein
CSF Cerebrospinal Fluid
CWT Continuous Wavelet Transform
DAMPs Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns
DBS Deep Brain Stimulation
DCCA Detrended Cross-Correlation Analysis
DL Deep Learning
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DNN Deep Neural Network
DT Decision Tree
DYRK Dual-specificity Tyrosine-Regulated Kinase
ECM Extracellular Matrix
EEG Electroencephalography
ERC Extracellular Receptor Kinase (likely context-dependent, check text)
ERK Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase
EXPANSE Environmental Policy for the Ageing Population (project acronym)
FDG Fluorodeoxyglucose
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FTLD Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
GA Genetic Algorithm
GBA Gut–Brain Axis
GBM Gradient Boosting Machine
GI Gastrointestinal
GIS Geographic Information System
GOC Gut-on-a-Chip
HC Healthy Control
HEALS Health and Environment-wide Associations based on Large population Surveys (project acronym)
IBD Inflammatory Bowel Disease
IEB Intestinal Epithelial Barrier
IFN Interferon
IL Interleukin
IRT Item Response Theory (context-dependent, check text)
KNN K-Nearest Neighbors
LBP Lipopolysaccharide-Binding Protein
LDA Linear Discriminant Analysis
LOA Lion Optimization Algorithm
LPS Lipopolysaccharide
MAPK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase
MCI Mild Cognitive Impairment
MD Mean Diffusivity
MGBA Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis
MINERVA Mechanism-based Integrated Systems for Neurodegeneration and Disease Variation (project acronym)
ML Machine Learning
MLP Multi-Layer Perceptron
MMSE Mini-Mental State Examination
MPS Microphysiological Systems
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MTAP Multi-Task Attention Pooling
NADPH Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Phosphate
NB Naïve Bayes
NDD Neurodegenerative Disease
NDDS Novel Drug-Delivery Systems
NF Nuclear Factor
NLP Natural Language Processing
NN Neural Network
NSD Neuronal alpha-Synuclein Disease
OASIS Open Access Series of Imaging Studies
OOC Organ-on-a-Chip
PD Parkinson’s Disease
PDMS Polydimethylsiloxane
PET Positron Emission Tomography
PFAS Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
PSO Particle Swarm Optimization
QDA Quadratic Discriminant Analysis
RAGE Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products
RAGT Robot-Assisted Gait Training
RF Random Forest
RGB Red, Green, Blue (color channels)
RNA Ribonucleic Acid
RNS Reactive Nitrogen Species
ROS Reactive Oxygen Species
SCFA Short-Chain Fatty Acids
SD Standard Deviation
SPM Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators
SSL Semi-Supervised Learning
STHAM Smart Technologies for Healthy Ageing with Multimorbidity (project acronym)
SVM Support Vector Machine
TNF Tumor Necrosis Factor
TRIF TIR-domain-containing Adapter-Inducing Interferon-β
WGCNA Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis