Table 3.

Results of the Visual Evaluation of the Peripheral Portal Vein Branches in Clinical Abdomen Images

	Averaged score
Patient no.	Original	Processed
Patient 1	2.2 ± 0.4	3.0
Patient 2	1.0	1.4 ± 0.5
Patient 3	2.6 ± 0.5	3.0
Patient 4	2.2 ± 0.4	2.8 ± 0.4
Patient 5	1.0	1.2 ± 0.4

Averaged grades for respective patients are indicated. The averaged scores of the processed images for all patients were higher than those of the original images. Value: mean ± SD