| LDCT | Low-Dose Computed Tomography |
| PN | Pulmonary Nodule |
| NSCLC | Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| SCLC | Small Cell Lung Cancer |
| AC | Adenocarcinoma |
| SCC | Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
| GGN | Ground-Glass Nodule |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Diagnosis |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform |
| ROI | Region of Interest |
| LASSO | Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator |
| LIFEx | Local Image Feature Extraction (software) |
| LightGBM | Light Gradient Boosting Machine |
| MLP | Multilayer Perceptron |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristic |
| Grad-CAM | Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping |
| BEiT | Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Image Transformers |
| DaViT | Dual Attention Vision Transformer |
| VOLO | Vision Outlooker |
| DINAT | Dilated Neighborhood Attention Transformer |
| VGG | Visual Geometry Group |
| ResNet | Residual Network |
| MetaFormer | Meta Transformer |
| EVA | Enhanced Visual Attention |
| NCHC | National Center for High-performance Computing |
| KVGH | Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital |
| CYCH | Chia-Yi Christian Hospital |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |