| Abbreviation | Full Name |
| SLR | Systematic Literature Review |
| DL | Deep Learning |
| DI | Dental Informatics |
| MI | Medical Informatics |
| IT | information technology |
| CAD | Computer-aided design |
| CAM | computer-aided manufacturing |
| CBCT | Cone Beam Computed Tomography |
| CT | Computerized Tomography |
| EDR | Electronic Dental Record |
| EHR | Electronic Health Records |
| FEA | Finite Element Analysis |
| FEM | Finite Element Method |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network |
| ELM | Extreme Learning Machines |
| GCN | Graph Convolutional Network |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network |
| RRC | Radiation-Related Caries |
| NILT | Near-infrared Light Transillumination |
| PCT | Periodontally Damaged Teeth |
| pBL | Periodontal Bone Loss |
| SVM | Support Vector Machine |
| DPR | Dental Panoramic Radiograph |
| TI | Transillumination |
| R-CNN | Region-based Convolutional Neural Network |
| GNN | Graph Neural Network |
| FP | False Positive |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristic |
| PRC | precision recall curve |
| AUC | Area Under Curve |
| mIOU | mean Intersection over Union |
| NPV | Negative Predictive Value |
| mAP | Mean Average Precision |
| IOU | Intersection Over Union |
| DSC | Dice similarity coefficient |
| DA | Detection Accuracy |
| FA | identification accuracy |
| FPR | false-positive predictions |
| MI-DCNNE | multi-input deep convolutional neural network ensemble |
| ICDAS | International Caries Detection and Assessment System |
| DNN | Deep Neural Network |
| UCDA | novel caries detection and assessment |
| TSGCNet | two-stream graph convolutional network |
| PGGAN | progressive growing of generative adversarial networks |
| SLFNs | Single-Hidden Layer Feed forward Neural Networks |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory |
| SSD | Single Shot MultiBox Detector |
| BPNN | Back-Propagation Neural Network |