| Abbreviations | Description |
| ABCD | Asymmetry Borders-Colors-Dermatoscopic Structures |
| ACC | Accuracy |
| CAD | Computer Aided Diagnosis |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| DB | Database |
| DCNN | Deep Convolutional Neural Network |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| DS | Dataset |
| F1 | Dice Coefficient (F1 Score) |
| FCN | Fully Convolutional Network |
| FPN | Feature Pyramid Network |
| HLPSO | Hybrid Learning Particle Swarm Organization |
| ILSVRC | ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge |
| IoU | Intersection-Over-Union, Jaccard Index |
| ISIC | International Skin Imaging Collaborative |
| KNN | K-Nearest Neighbor |
| Me | Melanoma |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| MNN | Multi-level Neural Network |
| NN | Neural Network |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PSO | Particle Swarm Optimization |
| RCNN | Deep region based convolutional neural network |
| ReLU | Rectified Linear Units |
| RGB | Red-Green-Blue |
| RPN | Region Proposal Network |
| SL | Skin lesion |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| TL | Transfer learning |
| YOLO | You Only Look Once |