| °/s | degrees per second |
| 1D | one-dimensional |
| 3D | three-dimensional |
| AC | Aortic valve closure |
| ADA | Autocorrelated Differential Algorithm |
| AFib | Atrial fibrillation |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| AO | Aortic valve opening |
| AVNN | mean inter-beat interval |
| BCG | ballistocardiography |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| BPM | Beats per minute |
| CAD | Coronary artery disease |
| CNN | Convolutional neural network |
| CWT | Continuous Wavelet Transform |
| CT | Computed Tomography |
| dps | degrees per second |
| DPV | Diastolic peak velocity |
| Ea | Early diastolic velocity |
| ECG | Electrocardiography |
| EMD | Empirical Mode Decomposition |
| FHR | Fetal Heart Rate |
| GCG | Gyrocardiography |
| HABIT | Hilbert adaptive beat identification technique |
| HF | the power of the HRV spectrum in the high frequency range |
| HR | Heart rate |
| HRV | Heart rate variability |
| ICA | Independent Component Analysis |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| IVCT | Isovolumetric contraction time |
| IVRT | Isovolumetric relaxation time |
| KSVM | Kernel Support Vector Machine |
| LBP | Local Binary Patterns |
| LOOCV | Leave-one-out Cross-Validation |
| LF | the power of the HRV spectrum in the low frequency range |
| LF/HF | LF/HF power ratio |
| LR | Logistic regression |
| LV | Left ventricular |
| LVET | Left Ventricular Ejection Time |
| MC | Mitral valve closures |
| MCG | Mechanocardiography |
| MEMS | Microelectromechanical systems |
| MO | Mitral valve opening |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| NN50 | number of successive RR intervals differing more than 50 ms |
| PCG | Phonocardiogram |
| PEP | Pre-ejection Period |
| PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
| pNN50 | probability of NN50 against total number of inter-beat intervals |
| PWD | Pulse Wave Doppler |
| QS2 | Total electromechanical systole |
| RF | Random Forest |
| RKE | Rotational Kinetic Energy |
| RMSSD | Root mean square of successive differences between inter-beat intervals |
| Sa | Systolic myocardial velocity |
| SCG | Seismocardiography |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SDNN | Standard deviation of the inter-beat interval |
| SFFT | Sparse Fast Fourier Transform |
| SMQT | successive mean quantization transform |
| SPV | Systolic peak velocity |
| STI | Systolic time interval |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TAVR | Transcatheter aortic valve replacement |
| TDI | Tissue Doppler Imaging |
| TIMM | Baseline width of the RR interval histogram |
| VLF | the power of the HRV spectrum in the very low frequency range |
| XGB | Extreme Gradient Boosting |