| ALM | acral lentiginous melanoma |
| AUC | area under the curve |
| BRAF | v-Raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 |
| CI | confidence interval |
| CMMR | Central Malignant Melanoma Registry |
| CR | complete response |
| CT | computed tomography |
| CTLA-4 | cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 |
| CV | cross-validation |
| FCBF | fast correlation-based filter for feature selection |
| IQR | interquartile range |
| LDH | lactate dehydrogenase |
| LMM | lentigo maligna melanoma |
| LoG | Laplacian of Gaussian |
| MEK | mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase |
| ML | machine learning |
| mRMR | minimum redundancy–maximum relevance feature selection |
| n | number |
| NM | nodular melanoma |
| OS | overall survival |
| PACS | picture archiving and communication system |
| PD | progressive disease |
| PD-1 | programmed death 1 |
| PET | positron emission tomography |
| PFS | progression-free survival |
| PR | partial response |
| RAF | rapidly accelerated fibrosarcoma |
| RAS | rat sarcoma |
| RECIST | Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors |
| ROC | receiver-operating characteristic |
| SD | stable disease |
| SSM | superficial spreading melanoma |