| Any-LM | Current leptomeningeal involvement, including LM alone and concurrent brain metastasis plus LM |
| AUROC | Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve |
| BM | Brain metastasis |
| BM-only | Brain metastasis without leptomeningeal metastasis |
| CEA | Carcinoembryonic antigen |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CNS | Central nervous system |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid |
| CTC | Circulating tumor cell |
| CYFRA21-1 | Cytokeratin 19 fragment |
| FLIC | Firth logistic regression with intercept correction |
| hs-pAUC | Standardized high-specificity partial area under the receiver operating characteristic curve |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| LM | Leptomeningeal metastasis |
| LUAD | Lung adenocarcinoma |
| MRI | Magnetic resonance imaging |
| OOF | Out-of-fold |
| RCS | Restricted cubic spline |
| WBC | White blood cell |