| sEMG | Surface electromyography |
| DFDL | Discriminative feature-oriented dictionary learning |
| LDA | Linear discriminant analysis |
| SVM | Support vector machine |
| K-SVD | K-singular value decomposition |
| EEG | Electroencephalogram |
| LC-KSVD | Label consistent K-SVD |
| ECRL/B | Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis |
| EDC | Extensor digitorum communis |
| ECU | Extensor carpi ulnaris |
| FCR | Flexor carpi radialis |
| FDS | Flexor digitorum superficialis |
| FDP | Flexor digitorum profundus |
| FCU | Flexor carpi ulnaris |
| NINAPRO | Non-Invasive Adaptive Prosthetics |
| DASH | Disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and hand |
| SVM_lin | Support vector machine with linear kernel |
| SVM_rbf | Support vector machine with radial basis function kernel |
| NB | Naïve Bayes classifier |
| RF | Random forests |
| KNN | k-nearest Neighbors |
| ANOVA | Analysis of variance |