AI	Artificial intelligence
AUROC	Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
CBC	Complete blood count
EFLM	European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
EU	European Union
FDA	U.S. Food and Drug Administration
IFE	Immunofixation electrophoresis
IMDRF	International Medical Device Regulators Forum
IV	Intravenous
LIS	Laboratory information system
LLM	Large language model
LOINC	Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
ML	Machine learning
PBRTQC	Patient-based real-time quality control
PPV	Positive predictive value
RAG	Retrieval-augmented generation
SaMD	Software as a Medical Device
SERS	Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
SPE	Serum protein electrophoresis
UTI	Urinary tract infection
WBIT	Wrong-blood-in-tube
XGBoost	Extreme gradient boosting