AC	active contour
AI	artificial intelligence
AURA-net	modified U-Net architecture designed to answer the problem of segmentation for small datasets of phase contrast microscopy images
BCE	binary cross-entropy
CNN	convolutional neural network
FP	false positive
ML	machine learning
OpenCV	open-source computer vision library
PPV	positive predictive value
ReLU	rectified linear unit
ResNET	residual neural network
TCR	TNT-to-cell ratio
TNT	tunnelling nanotube
U-Net	a convolutional network architecture for fast and precise image segmentation
VGGNet	a convolutional neural network architecture to increase ML model performance