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Epstein\u2013Barr virus (EBV)-positive and microsatellite instability (MSI) \/ mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) tumors have been reported to be highly responsive to ICIs. However, detecting these subtypes requires costly techniques, such as immunohistochemistry and molecular testing. In the present study, we constructed a histology-based deep learning model that aimed to screen this immunotherapy-sensitive subgroup efficiently. We processed whole slide images of 408 cases of gastric adenocarcinoma, including 108 EBV, 58 MSI\/dMMR, and 242 other subtypes. Many images generated by data augmentation of the learning set were used for training convolutional neural networks to establish an automatic detection platform for EBV and MSI\/dMMR subtypes, and the test sets of images were used to verify the learning outcome. Our model detected the subgroup (EBV\u2009+\u2009MSI\/dMMR tumors) with high accuracy in test cases with an area under the curve of 0.947 (0.901\u20130.992). This result was slightly better than when EBV and MSI\/dMMR tumors were detected separately. In an external validation cohort including 244 gastric cancers from The Cancer Genome Atlas database, our model showed a favorable result for detecting the \u201cEBV\u2009+\u2009MSI\/dMMR\u201d subgroup with an AUC of 0.870 (0.809\u20130.931). In addition, a visualization of the trained neural network highlighted intraepithelial lymphocytosis as the ground for prediction, suggesting that this feature is a discriminative characteristic shared by EBV and MSI\/dMMR tumors. 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