SN	Abb.	Definition
1	ACC	American College of Cardiology
2	AIbTC	Artificial Intelligence-based tissue characterization
3	ARDS	Acute respiratory distress syndrome
4	ASCVD	Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
5	ANS	Autonomic nervous System
6	AUC	Area under curve
7	AI	Artificial Intelligence
8	BMI	Body mass index
9	CAD	Coronary artery disease
10	CAS	Coronary artery syndrome
11	CHD	Coronary heart disease
12	CKD	Chronic kidney disease
13	CT	Computed Tomography
14	CUSIP	Carotid ultrasound image phenotype
15	CV	Cross-validation
16	CVD	Cardiovascular disease
17	CVE	Cardiovascular events
18	DL	Deep learning
19	DM	Diabetes mellitus
20	EEGS	Event-equivalent gold standard
21	EMG	Electromyography
22	EC	Endothelial Cell
23	ER	Endothelium reticulum
24	FH	Family history
25	GT	Ground truth
26	HTN	Hypertension
27	HDL	Hybrid deep learning
28	ICAM	Intercellular adhesion molecule
29	VCAM	Vascular cell adhesion molecule
30	LBBM	Laboratory-based biomarker
31	MedUSE	Medication use
32	ML	Machine learning
33	MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
34	NR	Not reported
35	NPV	Negative predictive value
36	NB	Naive Bayes
37	NO	Nitric Oxide
38	nOH	Neurogenic orthostatic hypotension
39	Non-ML	Non-machine learning
40	OBBM	Office-based biomarker
41	OH	Orthostatic hypotension
42	OxLDL	Oxidation of low-density lipoprotein
43	QTc	Chaotic heartbeat
44	PE	Performance evaluation
45	PPV	Positive predictive value
46	PCA	Principal component analysis
47	PRISMA	Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
48	PTC	Plaque tissue characterization
49	RA	Rheumatoid arthritis
50	PR	The period measured in milliseconds
51	RF	Random forest
52	ROS	Reactive Oxides Stress
53	RoB	Risk of bias
54	ROC	Receiver operating-characteristics
55	RNA	Ribonucleic acid
56	SCORE	Systematic coronary risk evaluation
57	SMOTE	Synthetic minority over-sampling technique
58	SVM	Support vector machine
59	TPA	Total plaque area
60	TC	Tissue Characterization
61	US	Ultrasound
62	tPA	tissue plasminogen activator