| ACR | American College of Radiology |
| ATA | American Thyroid Association |
| AUC | area under the curve |
| CNB | core needle biopsy |
| ETA | European Thyroid Association |
| EU | European |
| FNA | fine-needle aspiration |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
| K | Korean |
| KTA/KSThR | Korean Thyroid Association/Korean Society of Thyroid Radiology |
| LR | likelihood ratio |
| NIFTP | Noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasms with papillary-like nuclear feature |
| ND/UNS | nondiagnostic/unsatisfactory |
| ROC | receiver operating characteristic |
| ROM | risk of malignancy |
| RSS | risk stratification system |
| TBSRTC | the Bethesda system for reporting thyroid cytopathology |
| TIRADS | Thyroid Imaging, Reporting and Data System |
| US | ultrasound |