| ACC | accuracy |
| ADC | apparent diffusion coefficient |
| AUC | area under ROC curve |
| AT | Acquisition time |
| CRC | colorectal cancer |
| DP | pseudo-diffusion coefficient |
| DT | pure tissue coefficient |
| DWI | diffusion-weighted imaging |
| DKI | Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging |
| EPI | echo-pulse planar sequence |
| FA | Flip angle |
| FP | perfusion fraction |
| FS | fat-suppressed |
| HASTE | Half-Fourier Acquisition Single-Shot Turbo Spin-Echo |
| IVIM | Intravoxel Incoherent Motion method |
| KNN | K-Nearest Neighbor |
| MD | the mean value of diffusion coefficient with the correction of non-Gaussian bias |
| MK | mean value of kurtosis coefficient |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| NPV | negative predictive value |
| PPV | positive predictive value |
| ROI | Regions of interest |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| SEN | sensitivity |
| SPAIR | Spectral adiabatic inversion recovery |
| SPEC | specificity |
| STD | standard deviation |
| ST | Slice thickness |
| TE | Echo time |
| TR | Repetition time |
| VIBE | Volumetric Interpolated Breath-hold Examination |
| VOI | Volume of interest |