ACC	Accuracy
AUC	Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
ACR	American College of Radiology
CBAM	Convolutional Block Attention Module
CE	Cross-Entropy
CI	Confidence Interval
CNNs	Convolutional Neural Networks
DL	Deep Learning
FC	Fully Connected layer
FL	Focal Loss
FN	False Negative
FNA	Fine-Needle Aspiration
FP	False Positive
FP16	Half-precision floating-point
GAP	Global Average Pooling
IoU	Intersection over Union
LR	Learning Rate
mAP50	Mean Average Precision at an IoU threshold of 0.5
ML	Machine Learning
PACS	Picture Archiving and Communication System
ResNet	Residual Network
RFs	Random Forests
ROI	Region-of-Interest
SD	Standard Deviation
SEN	Sensitivity
SPE	Specificity
SVMs	Support Vector Machines
TI-RADS	Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System
TN	True Negative
TP	True Positive
US	Ultrasound
XGBoost	Extreme Gradient Boosting
YOLO	You Only Look Once