| AD | Alzheimer's disease |
| ANN | artificial neural network |
| ATL | anterior temporal lobe |
| Axial | Imaging along the axis of the body |
| BP | back-propogation |
| CC | cascade correlation |
| CCL | connected component labeling |
| Cranial | |
| CSF | cerebrospinal fluid |
| CT | computed tomography |
| CV | coefficient of variation |
| DA | discriminant analysis |
| DoG | difference of Gaussian |
| FBP | filtered book projection |
| FcM | fuzzy c-means |
| GM | gray matter |
| HF | hippocampal formation |
| ICC | intraclass correlation coefficient |
| ICM | iterated conditional modes |
| IL | incidental lesion |
| Invasive Procedures | diagnostic/treatment methods which require surgery |
| kM | k-means |
| kNN | k-nearest neighbor |
| Lateral | |
| Linear Tomography | An x-ray image formation procedure which blurs all but one depth |
| LoG | Laplacian of Gaussian |
| MAP | maximum a posteriori |
| MD | minimum distance |
| MFA | mean field annealing |
| ML | maximum likelihood |
| MM | multimodal |
| MMP | maximum marginal posterior |
| MRA | magnetic resonance angiography |
| MRF | Markov random field |
| MRI | magnetic resonance imaging |
| MRS | magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| MS | multiple sclerosis |
| Multimodal Fusion | the fusion images from distinct imaging modalities |
| NMR | nuclear magnetic resonance |
| NN | nearest neighbor |
| PET | position emission tomography |
| PVE | partial volume effect |
| Prospective | |
| Retrospective | |
| Registration | The registration of coordinates in two or more images, e.g., CT & MR or time 1 & time 2 |
| RF | radio frequency |
| RG | region growing |
| RL | relaxation labeling |
| RMS | root mean square |
| ROI | region of interest |
| SA | shading artifact |
| SAN | simulated annealing |
| SNR | signal-to-noise ratio |
| SPECT | single photon emission computerized tomography |
| SR | stochastic relaxation |
| TL | table lookup |
| Tomography | localization of imagine to a certain layer only |
| UBO | unidentified bright object |
| US | ultrasound |
| WM | white matter |
| WMH | white matter hyperintensity |
| WML | white matter lesion |