| DR | Diabetic retinopathy |
| CNN | Convolutional neural network |
| NPDR | Non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
| PDR | Proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
| ICDRDSS | International clinical diabetic retinopathy disease severity scale |
| IrMA | Intraretinal microvascular abnormalities |
| ADTCWT | Anisotropic dual-tree complex wavelet transform |
| NAS | Neural architecture search |
| MSE | Mean squared error |
| TP | True positive |
| TN | True negative |
| FP | False positive |
| FN | False negative |