| MIS | Minimally Invasive Surgery |
| HALS | Hand-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Model |
| SILS | Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery |
| HMI | Human–Machine Interface |
| HGR | Hand Gesture Recognition |
| CRF | Conditional Random Field |
| DTW | Dynamic Time Warping |
| GMM | Gaussian Mixture Model |
| RL | Reinforcement Learning |
| CI | Confidence Index |