HU	Hounsfield Unit
ABM	Adaptive Border Marching
A-CNN	Amalgamated Convolutional Neural Network
ASM	Active Shape Model
CAD	Computer-Aided Diagnosis
CADe	Computer-Aided Detection System
CADx	Computer-Aided Diagnosis System
DL	Deep Learning
CNN	Convolutional Neural Network
MV-CNN	Multi-view CNN
ML-CNN	Multi-level CNN
AHSN	Angular Histograms of Surface Normals
CPM	Competition Performance Metrics
CT	Computed Tomography
CV	Chan Vese
DBN	Deep Belief Network
DCNN	Deep Convolutional Neural Network
DNN	Deep Neural Network
ELM	Extreme Learning Machines
FLD	Fisher Linear Discriminant
FPN	False Positive Nodule
GAN	Generative Adversarial Network
GGO	Ground Glass Opacity
GGN	Ground Glass Nodule
ICLR	InferRead CT Lung Research
KB	Knowledge Bank
k-NN	K-nearest Neighbor
LDA	Linear Discriminate Analysis
LDCT	Low Dose Computed Tomography
LIDC-IDRI	Lung Image Database Consortium and Image Database Resource Initiative
MGRF	Markov Gibbs Random Field
ML	Machine Learning
MPP	Multi Player Perception
NNE	Neural Network Ensemble
PNN	Probabilistic Neural Network
RASM	Robust Active Shape Model
ROI	Region of Interest
RPCA	Robust Principal Component Analysis
SAE	Stacked Autoencoder
SS-ELM	Semi-Supervised Extreme Learning Machines
SVM	Support Vector Machine
TPN	True Positive Nodule
AUC	Area Under the Curve
IA	Invasive Adenocarcinoma
MTANN	Massive training artificial neural networks
NCI	National Cancer Institute
SVHN	Street View House Numbers Dataset
LASSO	Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator
AAH	Atyoical Adenomatous Hyperplasia
MIA	minimally invasive adenocarcinoma
AIS	Adenocarcinoma in Situ
GLCM	Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix
EM	Expectation–maximization method
DSC	Dice Similarity Coefficient
Inf-Net	COVID-19-infected lung segmentation convolution neural network
Semi-Inf-Net	semi-supervised Inf-Net
ALVD	absolute lung volume difference
BHD	bidirectional Hausdorff distance
HCRF	Hidden conditional random field
SCPM-Net	sphere center-points matching detection network
SD-U-Net	Squeeze and attention, and dense atrous spatial pyramid pooling U-Net