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We retrospectively enrolled 715 patients who underwent contrast-enhanced abdominopelvic computed tomography (CT). Of these, 246 patients had acute appendicitis, 254 had acute diverticulitis, and 215 had normal appendix. Training, validation, and test data were obtained from 4,078 CT images (1,959 acute appendicitis, 823 acute diverticulitis, and 1,296 normal appendix cases) using both single and serial (RGB [red, green, blue]) image methods. We augmented the training dataset to avoid training disturbances caused by unbalanced CT datasets. For classification of the normal appendix, the RGB serial image method showed a slightly higher sensitivity (89.66 vs. 87.89%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.244), accuracy (93.62% vs. 92.35%), and specificity (95.47% vs. 94.43%) than did the single image method. For the classification of acute diverticulitis, the RGB serial image method also yielded a slightly higher sensitivity (83.35 vs. 80.44%; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.019), accuracy (93.48% vs. 92.15%), and specificity (96.04% vs. 95.12%) than the single image method. Moreover, the mean areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUCs) were significantly higher for acute appendicitis (0.951 vs. 0.937; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001), acute diverticulitis (0.972 vs. 0.963; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0025), and normal appendix (0.979 vs. 0.972; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic> = 0.0101) with the RGB serial image method than those obtained by the single method for each condition. 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