| AdamW | Adaptive moment estimation with weight decay |
| ReLU | Rectified linear unit |
| C3 | Complement component 3 |
| FLAIR | Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery |
| BCE | Binary cross-entropy |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| MLP | Multi-layer perceptron |
| Dice | Dice similarity coefficient |
| GLCM | Gray-level co-occurrence matrix |
| GLRLM | Gray-level run length matrix |
| GLSZM | Gray-level size zone matrix |
| NGTDM | Neighborhood gray-tone difference matrix |
| IoU | Intersection over union |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| CM | Cryptococcal meningitis |
| CNS | Central nervous system |
| CRP | C-reactive protein |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid |
| ESR | Erythrocyte sedimentation rate |
| IL-6 | Interleukin-6 |
| LIME | Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations |
| MRI | Magnetic resonance imaging |
| PIIRS | Post-infectious inflammatory response syndrome |
| SHAP | SHapley Additive exPlanations |
| VPS | Ventriculoperitoneal shunt |
| ICU | Intensive care unit |