Table 7. List of acronyms.
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| (k) (GEP) (T) SVM | (kernel) (generalized eigenvalue problem) (twin) support vector machine |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| ANN | Artificial neural network |
| BA | Brodmann area |
| BD | Bhattacharyya distance |
| BRC | Brain region cluster |
| CAD | Computer-aided diagnosis |
| CC | Cerebral cortex |
| CDR | Clinical dementia rating |
| CSF | Cerebrospinal fluid |
| CI | Coronal index |
| CV | Cross validation |
| DBM | Deformation-based morphometry |
| DF | Displacement field |
| DWT | Discrete wavelet transform |
| GARCH | Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity |
| GEODAN | Geodesic anisotropy |
| HC | Hippocampus |
| ICV | Inter-Class variance |
| IG | Information gain |
| KNN | K-nearest neighbors |
| MGM | Modulated GM |
| MMSE | Mini-mental state examination |
| MR(I) | Magnetic resonance (imaging) |
| NBC | Naive Bayes classifier |
| NC | Normal elder controls |
| OASIS | Open access series of imaging studies |
| PEC | Pearson’s correlation |
| PNN | Probabilistic neural network |
| PSO | Particle swarm optimization |
| QP | Quadratic programming |
| ROI | Region of interest |
| RQ | Rayleigh quotient |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SVD | Singular value decomposition |
| TJM | Trace of Jacobian matrix |
| US | Undersampling |
| VFI | Voting feature intervals |
| WTT | Welch’s t-test |